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Podcasts, blogs, social networks and Second Life...David Robson investigates how physics publishing is reacting to Web 2.0
A tropical island, complete with palm trees, beaches and sunshine is not your typical venue for science conferences. Only in Second Life, the virtual world that has taken the physical world by storm, could such a place be dedicated entirely to science communication.
The island is Second Nature – Nature Publishing Group's (NPG's) experiment in exploiting virtual land for scientific publishing. It's a bold move, and just one more attempt to bring Web 2.0 technology, which includes blogs, podcasts, video broadcasting and social networks, to the scientific community.
Like the arrival of the printing press, technological innovation is threatening to disrupt the nature of publishing. But for publishing companies it's a doubleedged sword: along with the possibility of enlivening scientific content and bringing it to a wider audience comes the prospect of open access and its potential threat to the accepted financial landscape.
Physics publishing in particular has been quick on the uptake of the new internet technologies – partly due to its history (the world wide web was created by physicists at CERN) and also because of its culture. 'Physicists need to know about new research as fast as possible,' says Tim Ingoldsby, the director of strategic initiatives and publisher relations at the American Institute of Physics (AIP). 'It needs the rapid reportage of small breakthroughs.'
The new innovations help aggregate relevant information, often from many different sources, into a single place. This should help researchers to deal with the 'information explosion' associated with online publishing, allowing them to sort and categorise information in a meaningful way, and highlight the most important results. To achieve this, many publishers offer online portals, such as NPG's physics@nature.com website, which draws physics-based content from any of the publisher's journals.
The physics@nature.com portal brings together all the Nature Publishing Group's physics articles onto one site.
'It's not tied to a journal, so it covers lots of different content,' explains Jason Wilde, publisher for the physical sciences at NPG. 'It's a one-stop shop that allows users to see all the relevant articles across our portfolio.' This includes NPG's AOP (advance-online publication) articles, some of which are published weeks before the print version of the journal is released. The site also provides electronic table-of-contents alerts and RSS feeds, which highlight all of the relevant articles as soon as they are published.
One of the defining features of Web 2.0 technology is the ability of users to create and adapt the content of a website to suit themselves. Like NPG's portals, the Institute of Physics' (IOP's) new offering, IOPScience, brings together information from all its peer-reviewed journals, its pre-print service and its news websites. The users can decide for themselves exactly which subject areas they are interested in, and which journals to include in the search. This provides a personalised and newly-updated homepage each time they log in.
Searches made through IOPScience are fully customisable, allowing users to filter by journal, subject, author, date or PAC code. 'When a user does a search, it casts the net very wide, but you can then drill down into the results afterwards,' says Vanessa Murtough, product manager for IOPScience.
The website also borrows features from consumer websites like Amazon.com. For example, next to the abstract of papers it lists related articles selected by editors, and articles recommended by users who had read the original paper. This feature, launched in late July, directs users to popular and related work without having to search for it themselves. Another feature borrowed from commercial websites records the last 10 searches and 10 last viewed items.
'We're using the wisdom of the crowd to drive the researchers to the content that's important to them,' says Murtough. 'At the moment IOPScience is in its first year… we've had very good feedback from our customers so far.'
Users can also tag articles with key terms, to bookmark the pages on their own profile. Each term appears in the profile's 'tag cloud', linking back to the original article. A user can tag more than one page with the same term, in which case the tag would return an index of all the linked pages. The site also provides social bookmarking through services such as del.icio.us and Facebook, which help to direct users to relevant content.
Like most Web 2.0 features, the aim is to help users easily retrieve the information they need from the mass of possible documents available. 'There are too many papers and not enough time to read them all,' says Murtough. 'We're trying to signpost ways to find and interact with content more easily. It's more interactive and dynamic than previous offerings, and hopefully more useful,' she adds.
Collecting comments
Many news websites offer the opportunity for users to comment on articles, which promotes discussions and can give a varied viewpoint on news events. While academic publishers have not adopted comment boxes attached to articles to the same extent as news websites, many are becoming increasingly interested in blogging, both as a technique to highlight valuable content and as a medium to open discussion.
'We had considered adding a comments features to articles,' says Simeon Warner, who manages the arXiv physics pre-print service at Cornell University in the USA, 'but it could be difficult to maintain. By using the blogosphere, we don't need to police it in the same way.'
arXiv doesn't host its own blogs; instead, it uses a 'track back' service to find links to arXiv articles in independent blog entries. The links to these blog entries are aggregated on a separate arXiv page, and they also appear next to the abstracts of the original papers. 'It's a way of adding commentary and finding related information,' says Warner. 'Blogs could point out a problem in the presented research. And it offers the possibility of publicity.'
NPG, with its greater resources, manages its own blogs, written by its staff. 'From our point of view, we can interact in a less formal way. We can engage people and investigate other areas,' says NPG's Wilde. 'They are not restricted to looking at our content... they might be looking at mini reports of conferences, or news blogs.'
And the publisher also offers podcasts. This provides another way of examining content to engage users in a less formal manner than traditional academic or news articles. A regular podcast would last roughly half an hour, examining four to five different pieces of research together with interviews with the scientists.
Users and uptake
Last year the number of individual blogs reportedly hit a peak and the number is now said to be dwindling; not every publisher is convinced they will play an important part in future offerings. arXiv's Warner says: 'It's an interesting phenomena, but blogs at the moment are used heavily by a small sector. However, it's still worth our while to continue.'
IOP's Murtough also has reservations: 'We haven't included blogs at the moment,' she says, although she claims that IOP is still investigating the idea. 'With most Web 2.0 features, we're still trying to see what will be useful, and how it can be applied.'
AIP has recently conducted focus groups on young researchers, to monitor the adoption of Web 2.0 features. Despite the hype within the publishing industry, its study found that there seemed to be limited use by real users. 'So far there has not been a lot of use... but we're fairly convinced this will increase in the future,' observes Tim Ingoldsby.
Social networks, like Facebook and MySpace, have also met a similar degree of reserved interest. As has previously been mentioned, many publishers are offering the opportunity to bookmark articles to these sites, to show users what their friends and associates are reading.
Another possibility is that scientists could use publishing tools to include links to their growing body of work as part of their social network profiles. 'We're currently working out how to integrate the arXiv with social network sites,' says arXiv's Warner. 'For example, currently an author can write a query to find all their articles on arXiv, which they can then use on their own website. We could also integrate this as a plug-in for Facebook.'
The Institute of Physics' IOPScience portal is fully customisable, and includes Web 2.0 features such as cloud tagging and community recommendations.
NPG has established its own social network for scientists. Nature Network is free to join, and acts as a 'meeting place for scientists' according to Wilde. He adds that this is one of the areas of NPG's site with the highest traffic, and that it offers the opportunity to open discussions between like-minded people. Users can also establish their own blogs to report their opinions and findings.
NPG's other big Web 2.0 experiment, its Second Nature island in Second Life, has similar aims. 'It's a way of bringing people together, so they don't need to travel but can talk in the Second Life environment,' says Wilde. Current activities in Second Nature include a virtual exhibition of spacecraft and a lecture series, which has included talks on the European ExoMars space mission, biotechnology, climate change and animal conservation. The project was launched in late 2006. 'It's very experimental – we're not sure where it will go,' he says.
NPG's island in Second Life helps to bring together scientists in the virtual world.
Ten years ago, such projects would have been inconceivable. With users increasingly shaping and creating the content of online offerings, there's little doubt that Web 2.0 is shaking up the traditional relationship between publisher and customer.
This disruption is also evident in the way customers are asking to pay for articles. Much has been said about the destructive impact of the internet on the music industry, with customers increasingly demanding to download tracks for free, but the same is also true for academic publishing. Many users are now calling for open-access articles, which are free to view for everyone.
For some time most publishers have offered some articles for free, to allow users to sample content which may eventually encourage a subscription. For AIP's publications, authors, or their funders, can pay for their articles to be open access – a sum that could vary from $300 to $3,000.
Tim Ingoldsby says that authors may be willing to fork out this sum if the article could enhance their reputation. 'Scientists are (in part) rewarded by their publication record – it's how their productivity is evaluated,' he explains. 'By making an article available for free, it may help them become well-known for their work. But it's a huge change in the economic picture.'
However, the cost for publishing in some titles would be too high for authors to foot themselves if the journals have high rejection rates. Jason Wilde believes that for companies such as the NPG, which devote considerable resources to editing, sub-editing and peer-reviewing material, it would not be economically possible to provide all their articles for free. 'We put in a lot of investment to be sure articles are of the highest quality. I don't think that Nature is viable for the open-access model,' says Wilde.
Within the publishing industry, there's still some trepidation as to how the situation will pan out in the future and most publishers are testing the waters with a number of experimental projects. Will users choose to adopt Web 2.0 technologies in the future, or are they merely a gimmick?
And will open access replace the concept of paid subscription? 'The jury is still out there,' says AIP's Ingoldsby. 'It's a very exciting time with the innovations around Web 2.0, but it's also very scary because of the threat open access has to traditional business models.'
IOPScience – IOP's new customisable platform: iopscience.iop.org
arXiv blogs – Gathers blog entries about arXiv articles from the web and links them on one page: arxiv.org/tb/recent
Physics@nature.com – Nature's portal for physicists, which gathers relevant content from all its journals: www.nature.com/physics/index.html
Second Nature – Nature's island in Second Life, which hosts its own conferences and museums: www.nature.com/secondnature/index.html
Nature Networks – 'Facebook for scientists': network.nature.com


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And so what are general tricks for doing such calculations?
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Am I Actually Defending Thinkpieces? I Guess I Am.
Twitter brought me a Jezebel article this afternoon called "Damn, You're Not Reading Any Books by White Men This Year? That's So Freakin Brave and Cool", by Jia Tolentino. The gist of it is that reading more diversely is good, even necessary, but that writing thinkpieces about doing so is just another way of othering underrepresented writers and making diversity about yourself. It's an interesting perspective, and based on who I saw retweeting the link it's certainly one that seems to resonate with a lot of minority writers. Still, it doesn't really sit right with me.
Now, I imagine that the easiest, quickest negative response would be something along the lines of "Can't win for trying." And I'd be lying if I said that I didn't briefly go there myself, especially given the goals I recently set myself. The thing is, though, in her larger point about majority engagement with capital-D diversity, I agree with Tolentino. "If only it were possible to do something good and rewarding without publicly prioritizing what effect that act has on you," she says. Moreover, like so often seems to happen with corporate diversity initiatives, there's a real danger of people assuming that simply having some sort of diversity policy is the same as solving the actual problem. It reduces normalizing diversity in literature to something like a fad—here today, forgotten tomorrow.
If you were a queer writer, or a woman of color writer, would you want someone to read you because they thought they were doing something dutiful about power structures? Or because they gravitated to you, not out of any sense that you would teach them something about diversity that they could then write about in a year-end essay—but that they just read you because you were good?
How similar does that sound to some of the arguments against affirmative action, ones I especially tend to hear from more privileged minority groups? "I don't want to feel like I got a job just because someone was trying to fill a quota." But just as with the affirmative action, it presents a bit of a false dilemma. The choice here isn't necessarily between being read because of your talent and being read because of your gender or color or sexuality. In the real world, the choice can often be between being read because of a diversity mission and not being read at all.
In a perfect world, women writers, writers of color, queer writers would rise to the top and gain a following on the strength of their writing in much the same way that we imagine straight white men do. But we are just not at that point yet. If diverse writers are seeing any uptick in readership and stature in the industry, if there is any push right now toward a more inclusive mainstream, it's only because the need to actively seek out diverse books is being called out so loudly, and that that call is being repeated widely enough to gain momentum.
Of course it would be great for underrepresented writers and artists to be sought out solely on the basis of their talent. But at this point, without an active effort to bring those writers more attention (and therefore more sales, the only signal with any meaning to the publishers and retailers who determine what actually gets onto shelves) then it's difficult to imagine the status quo ever changing.
Last January I set myself a series of goals for the year. So, how did I end up doing on those? Let's take a look.
Goal: Read 25 books in any genre.
Result: I finished the year having read 39 books, so, not too shabby.
Result: I ran only 295 miles in 2015. This was partially due to taking six weeks off after hurting my knee, and partially due to working late too often, and therefore being too tired to wake up early to exercise.
Goal: Write 24 non-review, non-photo blog posts of at least 1000 words.
Result: I wrote three essays in 2015 that met these criteria. If I relax the restrictions a bit and include a couple of particularly long, essay-like reviews, I can get the number up to five.
Goal: Post 52 photos to this blog.
Result: 28. I was doing pretty well until June and then nothing.
Goal: Get accepted into at least 2 juried exhibitions or competitions.
Result: I got into 2 juried group shows this year. I also had my first solo show, so, not bad.
Goal: Spend at least 1 day shooting for my "It Forgets You" project.
Result: I just got this in under the wire, having spent Wednesday taking a bunch of terrible photos.
Goal: Finish writing the text for the "It Forgets You" book.
Result: I did not do this. Not even close.
Goal: Shoot at least 500 frames for my Mira Mesa project.
Result: I'm not actually sure how many frames I shot for this project. Currently there are 50 images in my Lightroom catalog which were shot in 2015 and have been tagged "Mira Mesa." But I also have three months of untagged photos, not to mention that I didn't keep track of any images I may have deleted. My "keep" rate is somewhere around one in five, so let's be generous and say I shot around 250 frames.
Goal: Complete a rough draft of a photo book for my "All Good Things" series.
Result: I did not even start a rough draft of a book for "All Good Things." The closest I got was a new edit and sequence for my portfolio reviews in October.
Goal: Shoot at least 12 self-portraits for the new series I'm working on.
Result: I shot one of these and then put this on the back burner while I re-evaluate the direction I want to take with the series.
So, out of ten goals, I accomplished three. And you know what? I'm calling that a pretty successful year. On to 2016!
Read 24 books in any genre. Of those, at least 12 must be written by women, and at least 12 must be written by a person of color.
Submit at least 5 proposals for solo exhibitions.
Write at least 12 essays on any topic for this blog.
Design and make a self-published version of my "Sheets" book.
Conduct 12 recorded interviews with other artists.
Design and make at least 1 new handmade artist's book.
There's more, but this seems like a good start. Hold me to it, people.
There was a point at which I was reading Allie Brosh's highly popular blog, Hyperbole and a Half several times a week. Sadly, those days are over (for now, at least) as she's only written eight posts in the past five years. Brosh's blog was one of those wonderful things that seems now like it could only have existed in the late '00s, back when blogging was still new and shiny. Hilarious, personal, sometimes achingly honest, Brosh had a way of relating (and drawing) her stories and recollections that always felt both singular and familiar. Well, fans of the blog will surely appreciate her 2013 book of the same name, as will, well, most people who aren't dead inside. The book continues her signature MS Paint cartoon-style and self-deprecating humor, combining some new essays with past hits. I do find myself wishing sometimes that she'd write for her blog again, but from everything I've heard, she's doing well and taking care of herself, so the book will have to be enough for now. And, you know, it does a pretty damn good job at that.
2015 has been, for me, something of a watershed year in terms of race. Not only in how I think about and engage with race and identity and representation, but also in terms of the availability and visibility of diverse art and entertainment. This was the year of Between the World and Me, of Fresh Off the Boat, of #ActualAsianPoet and #WeNeedDiverseBooks. It was the year that I realized that despite the fact that I've read hundreds of books since I started this blog, precious few were written by people of color.
I had all that in mind when I picked up a copy of Ken Liu's debut novel, The Grace of Kings. Now, if a desire to read more diverse fiction brings you to this book, as it did for me, that's fine. But it's not the only, nor even the main reason that you should read it. You should read it because it's interesting and well-written, a compelling, different take on epic fantasy.
The overwhelming majority of fantasy stories, particularly epic fantasy, can trace their roots back to the European medieval romance traditions. Springing from Malory's Morte d'Arthur and filtered through Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, we've seen all manner of iterations and variations, refinements of and reactions to these concepts, and, to be sure, there have been some real gems produced in the genre. But it's nevertheless refreshing to read a story that clearly has a different cultural basis.
From what I have been able to gather, The Grace of Kings is largely a retelling of the history and legends of the founding of China's Han dynasty in the late third century BCE. As the story opens, the aging Emperor Mapidere is touring the sprawling empire he forged through conquest. Though Mapidere is able to maintain control through reputation and force of arms, the constituent kingdoms he subjugated chafe under his rule, and after his death things fall apart again as his former subjects vie for power. In this context, we're introduced to Kuni Garu, a low-born but charismatic gambler and bandit, and Mata Zyndu, the last son of one of the noble families brought down by Mapidere's wars. At first separately and then together, the two men rise up and lead their followers to overthrow the empire, only to find themselves enemies when it comes time to decide how to establish a new order.
The book has drawn many comparisons to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but as I haven't read Luo Guanzhong's classic (yet) I can't comment on whether the analogy is apt. What I will say is that the style and structure of The Grace of Kings makes it feel more like a fable than a modern novel. Rather than utilizing the close third-person perspective that we've become accustomed to, Liu keeps everything more distant, resulting in a story that feels more narrated than immediate. That may not sound like high praise given the familiar admonishment "show, don't tell" but consider that highly influential texts from Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tales to Gabriel García Márquez's novels to the Bible all have a similar feel. Here, it works wonderfully, heightening the legendary quality of the story and characters.
This is the first book of an expected trilogy, and here the comparisons to Romance of the Three Kingdoms bring up some interesting possibilities. As I mentioned, The Grace of Kings mirrors the beginnings of the Han dynasty, but Romance of the Three Kingdoms—a book I've long wanted to read but still haven't gotten around to—is set in the end of that period of Chinese history. It may be that Ken Liu has plans to diverge from his historical inspirations, but if not, he's got plenty to work with. I'm certainly curious to find out.
There's a well-known psychological phenomenon where people tend to give more weight to arguments and evidence that supports their beliefs, and tend to discount or even forget information that contradicts those beliefs. This is called "confirmation bias." The reason I bring this up is because Joseph Stiglitz's book The Price of Inequality so strongly supports my beliefs about social and economic justice that I can't help but question whether my reaction to it might be the product of just such a bias.
The United States currently has an extremely high level of economic inequality, both in comparison with other contemporary developed countries and with its own history.
The current level of inequality cannot be justified by any sort of meritocracy, nor can it be attributed to inevitable, natural events.
Rather, the current level of inequality is largely the result of a massive transfer of wealth from the bottom of the economic ladder to the top, and that transfer is largely due to the manipulation of both market conditions and government policies by the wealthy elite.
the conditions driving the current levels of inequality are damaging to the environment.
Not only does Stiglitz base his arguments on data (and he provides copious references to the studies he cites), but he also directly responds to just about every criticism of his position that I've ever encountered. Indeed, after finishing this book, I was so thoroughly convinced that I immediately became skeptical of myself. I spent an hour or so sifting through Google results to try to find a coherent rebuttal to Stiglitz's points, but everything I found boiled down to either name-calling or a flat insistence that he simply couldn't be right.
Rather than simply ending with an analysis of how we came to be where we are, or even an explanation of the results should we continue on this course, Stiglitz goes further and provides a number of concrete recommendations for how we could improve the situation. Granted, it's a long shot that a jaded (or forcibly disenfranchised) constituency and a captured government would be able to implement any of the policies Stiglitz describes, but things are not irreversibly bad.
In this country, the discourse around the proper role of government often seems to be preoccupied with the possibility of future tyranny, and the necessity of structuring government so as to protect the people from itself. But in my view—and I think that Stiglitz would likely agree—a government that does not also protect weaker individuals (which is to say, less wealthy individuals) from the rapacities of those who would take advantage of them, is merely subsituting one form of tyranny for another. We can do better. I don't know if we will, and often when contemplating that possibility my cynicism gets the better of me. But there is a way forward if we choose to take it, and Joseph Stiglitz might just be able to show it to us.


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By - Associated Press - Thursday, November 3, 2016
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Boone County is adding nearly three dozen polling places in anticipation of higher voter turnout.
County Clerk Wendy Noren told The Columbia Daily Tribune (https://j.mp/2fjG7BU) the clerk's office has added about 35 polling locations compared to the primary election. The added locations bring the total to 82 locations.
She says about 30,000 people voted in the primary election, for a 30.52 percent turnout. Noren says she expects about 82,000 Boone County voters to cast ballots Tuesday.
About 30,000 people voted in the primary election for a 30.52 percent turnout. Noren says she expects about 82,000 Boone County voters to go to the polls Tuesday.
She says the county had 85 polling locations open for the 2008 presidential election. Voter turnout for that election was 83.65 percent, with 85,484 ballots cast.
Information from: Columbia Daily Tribune, https://www.columbiatribune.com
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FNM: No further privatisation decision
THE NATIONAL Property Fund (FNM) announced on February 17 that it would take no further decisions on privatisation sales until after the general election on June 17. This decision also covers tenders that are in progress, FNM spokesperson Tatjana Lesajová said.
The FNM said it would decide within two weeks on how to proceed in special cases, such as ongoing sales. "Each tender is at a different stage, so halting them could influence individual companies in various ways," Lesajová said.
Tenders where bids have not yet been submitted could be halted, while submission deadlines for other tenders could be postponed, the TASR newswire wrote.
The FNM says it will follow the lead of the government, which was to deal with the issue at a session in late February.
Among the most important tenders currently under the FNM's remit are those already halfway complete, such as the sale of state heating plants, local transport firms, and arms manufacturer DMD Group. Another privatisation to be affected will be that of the Západoslovenská energetika (Western Slovak Energy) electricity distributor, which is already in its final phase.
27. Feb 2006 at 0:00 | From press reports


I bought a "Tracker" brand coffee maker and while it makes good coffee it doesn't get it very hot. Does anyone have a recommendation for a maker that makes good and hot coffee?
What I used was a 12v submersible beverage heater and Folgers Singles.
Add water to a ceramic or metal mug, hat the water and the steep the coffee bag. Then I would dump it in my travel mug and off I would go.
When I was at a truck stop I would simply take my travel mug inside and fill it with hot water from the coffee maker and then make the coffee when I got back to the truck.
I never had much luck with 12v coffee makers, Between them not getting real hot, they seem to take forever to brew a pot.
I use a 12v, 2 cup (thought it was a 5er) Tracker that I picked up at Petro. It fills my travel mug and takes about 15 minutes to brew, which is perfect for doing a Pre-trip.
Thanks guys, I finally bought a Burton brand 4 cup maker and it works great. Although I don't know what 4 cups they're talking about. It just fills my travel mug.
It still takes about 30 minutes but it gets it hot.
I just bought a Cuisinart 4-Cup,12-Volt Coffeemaker. I saw these down in Laredo some time back, about the time I started driving. I wanted to buy it, but because I was so new I couldn't talk myself into it. Besides, this was at a Pilot, so every Pilot will have them. That line of thinking was so wrong. I never could find them again, I look for them at every truckstop that I go into. I even emailed Cuisinart, they say they don't make a 12-Volt version. Well, I'm back in Laredo tonight and they have them again. I bought one and I will let you know how it works out for me. I sure does look like a Cuisinart, it even has the usual propaganda inside including a warranty. Now I have to stop by Starbucks to get some coffee.
terry, walmart has a limited selection of starbuck's coffees.
Please advise, prompt, help. I would like to hear the opinion, advice or personal experience about which manufacturer of espresso machines, which make pod coffee is better? I almost bought KRUPS XP 5240, but found reviews of Krups XP 4050 and much of them are not nice.Can somebody say something about Nespresso Vertuo Evoluo Coffee? Did anyone purchase it?
youse best source for product reviews, is on Yousetube.
So many choices these days, I miss the old days when you had maybe 3.