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Friendfeed for Research? First impressions of ScienceFeed

[16 Feb 2010 | 65 Comments | 806 views]

I have long been an advocate of Friendfeed as a great tool for researchers. Here I discuss the new Friendfeed clone built for researchers, ScienceFeed, suggest what it is good for and what its weaknesses are.

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To the extent possible under law, Cameron Neylon has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Science in the Open. Published from the United Kingdom.

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The Research Works Act and the breakdown of mutual incomprehension

Friday 7:55

New post on the #RWA The mutual incomprehension that led us to where we are today: http://t.co/8wnHWz2W

Friday 7:57

Commented on Re: The Research Works Act and the breakdown of mutual incomprehension

Friday 7:28

RT @neurobongo: Current state of acad. publishing: imagine if hosting on Github meant they owned exclusive rights to your code. #RWA #takebackscience

Thursday 17:19

RT @andypowe11: uk e-petition for fair vat on e-publications for the academic community - http://t.co/Z6Va4cOK

Wednesday 15:21

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New post on the #RWA The mutual incomprehension that led us to where we are today: http://t.co/8wnHWz2W [cameronneylon]

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RT @BrianSMcGowan: "some dinosaur lineages survived. we call them birds. there are attractive ones. but they are much smaller." http://t ... [cameronneylon]

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RT @neurobongo: Current state of acad. publishing: imagine if hosting on Github meant they owned exclusive rights to your code. #RWA #ta ... [cameronneylon]

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Committed to cameronneylon/contrail.

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RT @andypowe11: uk e-petition for fair vat on e-publications for the academic community - http://t.co/Z6Va4cOK [cameronneylon]

— February 1st via Twitter
Irony that the "Future of Publishing" apprntly doesn't know basics of SEO, consistent URL mapping, or persistent URLS is not lost on me #rwa [cameronneylon]

— February 1st via Twitter
Folks, the AAP #RWA press release is still there, just link is broken, have to navigate by different route cc @campuscopyright [cameronneylon]

— February 1st via Twitter
To all lovely ppl who asked me to speak at young scientist confrncs recently sorry for slw reply. Trying to jig diary so can say yes to all. [cameronneylon]

— February 1st via Twitter
Actually wish the chronicle article had been less "she-said-he-said". Would have been good to get the whole #Elsevier side laid out #rwa [cameronneylon]

— February 1st via Twitter
Chronicle article including statements from @wisealic and @tomreller Important to read and understand views http://t.co/fRilSG2N #rwa [cameronneylon]

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