This always happens. I go to a meeting of some kind, get loaded up with new ideas and experiences, get excited about writing about them, and then reality comes crashing back down and I never end up finding the time to do the writing properly, if at all. Before the memories of scifoo slip further away, I just want to note some ideas I had for posts about the experience. If any of them strike your interest, let me know and I will do my best to do a complete post on the topic.
- People I met at scifoo
- Things I collected at scifoo
- Google's role in the future of bioinformatics
- Micro-credits. How to assign credit and blame in the smaller, newer bits that compose pieces of open science projects or other useful collaborative endeavors
- My brief talk with Geoffrey Carr, the science editor for The Economist
- Google could care less about meta-data, my talk with Peter Norvig and Christine Borgman.
- What I would do differently if I ever go to another foo camp
- Why I should have been twittering
- cell phones versus one laptop per child
- Impressions of the Google campus
I'll leave it at that, let me know if anything strikes your fancy!
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9 comments:
Your #4 is kind of an obsession of mine, so I vote for a post on microcredit! (Maybe "microcitation" or something, to distinguish from things like Grameen Bank?)
I vote for #6.
I'm curious about #7. I find I'm always kicking myself after attending a conference for numerous reasons; usually because I wasn't brave enough to introduce myself to a researcher.
I know you are busy but I would like to hear about #3,5,6 and 9. (This is not helping to narrow your list, I know.)
Hmm.. not much of a consensus forming so far. Feel free to vote again ;)
Bill. I think micro-credit is a better term then micro-citation because the concept is much farther reaching than academia. At some point I can imagine such micro-credits actually being translated into money in some situations.
Morgan. As you might expect, it mainly amounts to being less shy, but being better prepared would also help quite a bit.
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#6, please!
Well it looks like the 6's have it with 4 votes for now so I guess I should dig into the Google verse the librarians discussion!
Second place includes a tie for google's role in the future of bioinformatics, micro-credits, and cell-phones verse one laptop-per-child. My hundredth post is coming up so maybe I will try to save one of these for that momentous event.
Alrighty, I took a crack at the google doesn't care about meta-data idea. Let me know what you think about it!
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