http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ somewhat continously en Vox Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:29:04 -0700 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/why-the-lhc-is-not-really-that-impressive.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/why-the-lhc-is-not-really-that-impressive.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/why-the-lhc-is-not-really-that-impressive.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:29:04 -0700 Yesterday the Guardian had a special pull out section dedicated to the LHC. If you browse through the articles you find lots of comments along the lines of "temple to mystery and imagination", "a journey to the edge of understanding". "a moder... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/why-the-lhc-is-not-really-that-impressive.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fae8c80373000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-head-to-head.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-head-to-head.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-head-to-head.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:20:53 -0700 The second talk in the evening CREEN parallel session is from J. Holyst about phase transitions in coupled complex networks where the network properties are different in the two groups. In one group there are a smaller number of members, but th... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-head-to-head.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fae8c6339f000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/creationism-as-science.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/creationism-as-science.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/creationism-as-science.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:59:37 -0700 I'm at the netsci08 conference and there is a really delightful talk about the network of papers published in the creationisim/evolution debate. The group looked at key people in the ID debate and people who acted as strong defenders of evolut... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/creationism-as-science.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fa968244010003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/network-branching-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/network-branching-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/network-branching-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:50:56 -0700 I'm really torn by the number of great talks on today. There are three parallel sessions, and for each time slot I want to be in at least two places at once. I'm going to try to pick out talks that have some relation to online social networks,... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/network-branching-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fa968233e80003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-in-space-mark-newman-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-in-space-mark-newman-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-in-space-mark-newman-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:35:07 -0700 Mark Newman, Networks in Space, This is about networks in geographic space. Mark is looking at properties of networks that are tied to geography. Transport networks are a good example, and we are looking at the difference between road and air n... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/networks-in-space-mark-newman-netsci08.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fa968230600003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-opening-keynote.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-opening-keynote.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-opening-keynote.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:01:11 -0700 Nicholas Christakis, Harvard, "eat drink and be merry, the spread of health phenomena in social networks". This talk is looking at the spread of desies throgh social interactions, rather than other types of interactins. The main study was looki... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-opening-keynote.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fa96818cc60002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> netsci08 http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-blogginh.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-blogginh.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-blogginh.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:05:24 -0700 I'm in Norwich all this week attending Netsci08 http://www.ifr.ac.uk/netsci08/, the internatinal workshop and conference on network science. It's a week long event, and broadly speaking it looks like there are three types themes that are being... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/netsci08-blogginh.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fad693bf6d0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> netsci08 http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/i-didnt-expect-lock-in-so-quickly.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/i-didnt-expect-lock-in-so-quickly.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/i-didnt-expect-lock-in-so-quickly.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:52:51 -0700 I've just signed up for an account with twidox, which is a start up that is collecting shared documents of interest to scientists, I believe. They are in the private beta stage, but had a link on their homepage for requesting an account. I got... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/i-didnt-expect-lock-in-so-quickly.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fad69152480005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/social-networks.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/social-networks.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/social-networks.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:24:32 -0700 There is a tension between the providers of social software, and the way we behave. When I move from one city to another my social network changes as that's very location dependent, but when I do have that network set up for the most part, I d... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/social-networks.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fad690b0750004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/the-gap-between-open-access-and-editorial-quality.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(IanMulvany) http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/the-gap-between-open-access-and-editorial-quality.html?_c=feed-rss http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/the-gap-between-open-access-and-editorial-quality.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:57:33 -0700 I'm reading a great article by Joe Esposito on Open Access. You can read the article here:http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;cc=jep;rgn=main;view=text;idno=3336451.0011.203. The article's main claim is that attention is the bar... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://partiallyattended.vox.com/library/post/the-gap-between-open-access-and-editorial-quality.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e7c9248be2b00fad69023ff0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>