Mailund on the Internet

I guess I am morally obliged to point you to EveryONE, PLoSONE’s new blog, seeing as I just joined the editorial board there.

Why a blog and why now? As of March 2009,  PLoS ONE, the peer-reviewed open-access journal for all scientific and medical research, has published over 5,000 articles, representing the work of over 30,000 authors and co-authors, and receives over 160,000 unique visitors per month. That’s a good sized online community and we thought it was about time that you had a blog to call your own. This blog is for authors who have published with us and for users who haven’t and it contains something for everyone.

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A day late, here is my pick of my favorite posts from last week.

Blogging

• Blogs firmly established as a mean of scientific communication (A blog around the clock)
• In which I kick my own ass (Ouroboros)

Copyright

• Can copyright evolve with the Internet? (The questionable authority)
• John Conyers and Open Access (Lessig)

Next generation sequencing

• The next generation dilemma: Large scale data analysis (Finchtalk)

Programming

• When is zero not a zero? (Revolutions)
• First look: Qt 4.5 rocks for rapid cross-platform development (Ars Technica)
• Applying a tracing JIT to an interpreter (PyPy status blog)

Research life

• Scandal: grant reviewers favor work that is “original,” “feasible” (John Hawks)

Statistics

• Describing descriptive studies using descriptive language (Statistical modeling)

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My string algorithms challenge got a lot of attention, but this morning I saw this in the blog statistics:

Is the post evil?

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