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Entries from May 2008

Workshop on Research 2.0

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

A while back I posted links to some research on Web 2.0 tools and scientific collaboration. For anyone who might be interested, there is a Workshop on Research 2.0 offered as part of the next Conference on e-Social Science. The call for papers was recently posted, and abstracts are due on 15 May, 2008.
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Tags: Conference · Multi-disciplinary · Research

The Next Social Revolution

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Clay Shirky posted his talk from last week’s Web 2.0 conference as a wonderful piece on what he calls social surplus - extra cognitive capacity that people don’t know how to spend at first. He argues that our next revolution is the shift from spending our spare cognitive cycles consuming content - watching TV […]

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Tags: Social Media · Talks