great article on Internet Science

This is the best news article about science in the age of the Internet that I have ever read.  If the title is at all interesting to you, its worth a read:

"How crowdsourcing is changing science" 

by Gareth Cook.

Boston Globe, November 11, 2011

Google buys Metaweb

If there was any previous doubt about whether 2010 will be known as the year that the Semantic Web came of age, this acquisition seals the deal.

I wonder if my life would be different if I had listened to my wife's advice and walked up to Danny Ayers at sci foo in 2008 and asked for a job... His three word intro "just, an, engineer" still inspires me.

Well done Danny and friends!