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User-generated science: Web tools are beginning to change the shape of scientific debate
- yters 18y agoCool, especially if access to the blogs remains open to anyone.
- wheels 18y agoAwesome. I'd love to see one of these guys pull through. I'm in one of my heavy research phases right now and there's always this cat-and-mouse information tracking problem of trying to trace an idea back to its source and track its derivations through the clunky interfaces that online journals use now. (Especially, say, if you're not members of all or any of them.) Similarly, I asked exactly the question The Economist nails of a friend of mine in academia last week (who does a lot of peer review) -- how do ideas spread at a reasonable pace through academic circles given that it often takes a year or more for a paper to be published? The answer was, "Everybody knows everybody. They talk." Which naturally is frustrating looking from the outside in and working on theoretically intensive problems from a non-academic setting.
- streety 18y agoI don't think that's entirely true. People might talk (brag?) about their latest results but if you want to compare notes on methods it can get extremely frustrating.