Thursday, July 25, 2013
Ubuntu Edge: Three big takeaways on the cross-over Android device
This could be the mobile device that
finally has enough power and moxy to replace a PC, because it can act just like
one.
With the Ubuntu Edge, that’s exactly
what Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth would like you to believe. Announced on
Monday, the Ubuntu Edge is a high-powered Android smartphone that will also
dock and provide a full desktop experience using Ubuntu. It runs bleeding edge
hardware squarely aimed at enthusiasts and it has launched one of the world’s
largest crowdfunding campaigns to date in order to make it happen.
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Google Unveils £22 Web TV Streaming Dongle
Google has introduced a new device to allow viewers to stream internet videos to their TV.
Chromecast, a two-inch dongle that looks like a thumb drive, fits into the HDMI port on an HD television.It streams content over a wi-fi network to a television, using a computer, phone or tablet as a remote control.
The company said its goal is to create a device with no setup time, no learning curve, and one that works with all platforms and devices.
http://news.sky.com/story/1120117/google-unveils-22-web-tv-streaming-dongle
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication
The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication
Abstract:Twitter is a micro-blogging social media platform for short messages that can have a long-term impact on how scientists create and publish ideas. We investigate the usefulness of Twitter in the development and distribution of scientific knowledge. At the start of the 'life cycle' of a scientific publication, Twitter provides a large virtual department of colleagues that can help to rapidly generate, share and refine new ideas. As ideas become manuscripts, Twitter can be used as an informal arena for the pre-review of works in progress. Finally, tweeting published findings can communicate research to a broad audience of other researchers, decision makers, journalists and the general public that can amplify the scientific and social impact of publications. However, there are limitations, largely surrounding issues of intellectual property and ownership, inclusiveness and misrepresentations of science ‘sound bites’. Nevertheless, we believe Twitter is a useful social media tool that can provide a valuable contribution to scientific publishing in the 21st century.Tuesday, July 23, 2013
How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century
Interesting article in the CHE
......rediscovery of the 19th century as an open-source reading experience is accompanied by a subtle appreciation of the era’s intellectual merits. Consider the quantity of material—obscure novels, local histories, antique catalogs, minor journals, a sea of biographies, and those vast and terrifyingly erudite bibliographies that were a specialty of that age of scholarship.Work that fails to enter a canon—literary, historical, or otherwise—tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard. This represents a significant change in the way we think about scholarship. Google Books is a kind of Victorian portal that takes me into a mare magnum of out-of-print authors, many of whom helped launch disciplines. Or who wrote essays, novels, and histories that did not transcend their time. Or who anonymously produced the paperwork of emerging bureaucracies, organizations, and businesses that, because printed, has been scanned and, because scanned, is now available......
......rediscovery of the 19th century as an open-source reading experience is accompanied by a subtle appreciation of the era’s intellectual merits. Consider the quantity of material—obscure novels, local histories, antique catalogs, minor journals, a sea of biographies, and those vast and terrifyingly erudite bibliographies that were a specialty of that age of scholarship.Work that fails to enter a canon—literary, historical, or otherwise—tends to languish on the dustier shelves of college libraries. Digitization allows a new generation of scholars to look at them with fresh regard. This represents a significant change in the way we think about scholarship. Google Books is a kind of Victorian portal that takes me into a mare magnum of out-of-print authors, many of whom helped launch disciplines. Or who wrote essays, novels, and histories that did not transcend their time. Or who anonymously produced the paperwork of emerging bureaucracies, organizations, and businesses that, because printed, has been scanned and, because scanned, is now available......
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