Some posts are more popular than others, here are some of the tastier posts that have either received lots of views, comments or I particularly enjoyed writing.
World Wide Wikipedia
Weird, wonderful and wrought with problems but a force for good on the web. Adventures in wiki-space…
- I fought the lore and the lore won, resistance to wikipedia is futile, so why do people bother?
- Congratulations and thanks Jessica Wade, on 1000 new wikipedia biographies
- Thanks Sarah and Bhav at Wikimedia UK, feeling the wiki-love in Glasgow, Scotland
- Fellows of the Wiki Society: When will the Royal Society of London go wiki? Here’s hoping…
- The Royal Society of London experiments with Wikipedia, interesting things happening in wiki-space
BBC: Big British Castle
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), inspires and infuriates in equal measure:
- Mourning the loss of publicly archived data at the BBC, the Infax database was a treasure chest of information
- BBC Connected Studio, having a sneaky peek inside public sector broadcasting
- Physics or Stamp Collecting: Let’s hear it for the stamp collectors, with help from The Life Scientific on BBC
- The Lovelock Laboratory: A Fantasy workplace in the West Country, living the dream with James Lovelock
Googleology
Googleology: a weird, wonderful and worrying science from Mountain View, California:
- Is Google the World’s largest advertising agency? Or will Facebook take over?
- Having fun in the Googleplex at Science Foo Camp, adventures in Silly Valley, California
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Googling For, ruining the lyrics to a perfectly good song
- More Googley posts in the Google category
A little bit of politics
We get the politicians we deserve:
- Dear Europeans, do you know who your MEP is and what they do? is there life after #Brexit
- MPs with Science Degrees: How did Science & Technology do in the UK General Election 2015?, better than you might think
- An Open Letter to David Rutley MP on the Geek Manifesto, geeking the vote
- How to spend a £400 million Science budget, a thought experiment with lots of money
Scientific publishing, must try harder
A profitable business that is 350 years old, and mostly refuses to change for the 21st Century.
- Impact Factor Boxing, the sport of publishing that scientists love to hate
- A critique of Mendeley.com, great idea, shame about the noisy data
- The Open Access Irony Awards: Naming and Shaming them, irony of ironies
- How many journal articles have been published (ever)? Millions and millions-ish
- Twenty million papers in PubMed: A triumph or tragedy? U.S. biomedical database gets quite big
Book learnin’ and education
Book reviews, book learning, book worming, book burning and other bookish or educational posts
- What School Did You Go To? Flying the school pride flag
- Seven things to do at CERN if you’re not a Physicist, scientific travelogue
- Nine ideas for teaching computing, from the Computing at School conference in Birmingham
- What should we discuss at SIGCSE journal club?, kicking off a reading group for computer scientists
- UK Riots: Blame it on the Baby Boomers, inspired by The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers Stole Their Children’s Future by David Willetts
- Hunkin’s Hypothesis: Technology is what makes us human, the gospel according to engineer Tim Hunkin
- Open Access by Peter Suber, Open Access is now open access
Just for laughs
Some lighter comic relief:
- If Science were an Olympic Sport, which events would scientists excel at?
- Olympic Science: The Long Jump to Conclusions, metaphorical medals at London 2012
- Why can’t people just say what they mean? If only it were that simple
- Top ten excuses for World Cup football failures, where did I put my vuvuzela?
- Blue Moon hypothesis tested in Large Football Collider (LFC), how much does it cost to buy a premier league title?
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