Comments for notmuchbetter http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com garbage everywhere Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:37:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on geek life by notmuchbetter http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/geek-life/#comment-25 notmuchbetter Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:37:33 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/?p=48#comment-25 this looks interesting: (from neil) http://www.feedscrub.com/ this looks interesting: (from neil)

http://www.feedscrub.com/

]]> Comment on personal growth by MERRICK http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/personal-growth/#comment-23 MERRICK Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:39:23 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-23 Incidentally, that ctrl-shift-T has saved my ass since I read about it here, at least a couple of times. Incidentally, that ctrl-shift-T has saved my ass since I read about it here, at least a couple of times.

]]> Comment on personal growth by notmuchbetter http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/personal-growth/#comment-20 notmuchbetter Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:40:58 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-20 ... about an hour after I posted I biked home and saw a herd of fire trucks surrounding one of the buildings toward the end of my street but slightly off to the side. hmmmm. … about an hour after I posted I biked home and saw a herd of fire trucks surrounding one of the buildings toward the end of my street but slightly off to the side. hmmmm.

]]> Comment on I’m surprised I’ve not seen this before by notmuchbetter http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/im-surprised-ive-never-seen-this-before/#comment-19 notmuchbetter Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:52:29 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/im-surprised-ive-never-seen-this-before/#comment-19 Still moderately banjo-ing but I'd forgotten about the covers ... not so much came out of the requests on my end. With the banjo, I'm finding it's all-to-easy to just work on rolls (i.e. noodle and plunk endlessly) and never learn tunes. I should really make another attempt to put one of those together. Still moderately banjo-ing but I’d forgotten about the covers … not so much came out of the requests on my end. With the banjo, I’m finding it’s all-to-easy to just work on rolls (i.e. noodle and plunk endlessly) and never learn tunes. I should really make another attempt to put one of those together.

]]> Comment on I’m surprised I’ve not seen this before by Alan http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/im-surprised-ive-never-seen-this-before/#comment-18 Alan Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:24:48 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/im-surprised-ive-never-seen-this-before/#comment-18 Hey there... Still doing banjo requests? Please email me if you are... (I'll explain)... Alan Hey there…

Still doing banjo requests? Please email me if you are… (I’ll explain)…

Alan

]]> Comment on coffee and review papers by Joseph B. Merrick http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/coffee-and-review-papers/#comment-17 Joseph B. Merrick Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:55:30 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-17 Sort-of on topic, I was forwarded this blog today: http://bpr3.org/ Keep in mind I'm not even on coffee cup #1 yet, so the relevance to this topic might be ... nil. Sort-of on topic, I was forwarded this blog today:

http://bpr3.org/

Keep in mind I’m not even on coffee cup #1 yet, so the relevance to this topic might be … nil.

]]> Comment on coffee and review papers by notmuchbetter http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/coffee-and-review-papers/#comment-16 notmuchbetter Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:05:24 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-16 The thing with monographs and library budgets is that it is the authors that are essentially to blame for any budget problems. Monographs are produced almost for free - at least if you do not count wages which basically act as strange subsidies. Publishing costs are virtually nil. The reality is that most authors could afford to serve their papers themselves considering that bandwidth (i.e. readership) is not really an issue for most papers. Preservation of old or rare work as well as maintaining a "trusted" relational database (for various searching functions) is completely another issue that I do not have a good grasp on. The OMP thing you mention above goes along with something I almost posted about before: good pdf annotation. There's not really anything good out there. "good" for me would mean some sort of general, open, extensible language for comment objects (graphical, text, code ... whatever) which could be laid on top of pdf's ... or somehow inserted into documents (probably less feasible with most pdf's) via another class of programs. A lot of wiki-style collaborative papers have features like this but I'm thinking of something moving toward a network of commenters sharing their comments about a *fixed* document - traditional means now are through comment threads like on this site. I probably haven't thought this out very well, maybe the old threading style is good enough ... but I like to blather. blah. I'll have to spend some time looking at the OJS site again. It looks like things have developed a lot since the last time I seriously looked through it about a year ago. The thing with monographs and library budgets is that it is the authors that are essentially to blame for any budget problems. Monographs are produced almost for free – at least if you do not count wages which basically act as strange subsidies. Publishing costs are virtually nil. The reality is that most authors could afford to serve their papers themselves considering that bandwidth (i.e. readership) is not really an issue for most papers. Preservation of old or rare work as well as maintaining a “trusted” relational database (for various searching functions) is completely another issue that I do not have a good grasp on.

The OMP thing you mention above goes along with something I almost posted about before: good pdf annotation. There’s not really anything good out there. “good” for me would mean some sort of general, open, extensible language for comment objects (graphical, text, code … whatever) which could be laid on top of pdf’s … or somehow inserted into documents (probably less feasible with most pdf’s) via another class of programs. A lot of wiki-style collaborative papers have features like this but I’m thinking of something moving toward a network of commenters sharing their comments about a *fixed* document – traditional means now are through comment threads like on this site. I probably haven’t thought this out very well, maybe the old threading style is good enough … but I like to blather. blah.

I’ll have to spend some time looking at the OJS site again. It looks like things have developed a lot since the last time I seriously looked through it about a year ago.

]]> Comment on coffee and review papers by Joseph B. Merrick http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/coffee-and-review-papers/#comment-15 Joseph B. Merrick Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:19:52 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-15 The folks I'm currently working for (http://pkp.sfu.ca) are in the process of outlining an online platform called Open Monograph Press, which will be branched off our current OJS/OCS codebase. The idea is to move monograph writing from an isolated, offline process to something that's online and collaborative (to varying degrees, of course). It'll involve some social networking/web 2.0 devices in it to accomplish said objective. There are other objectives too, like saving the monograph from shrinking library budgets, and so on. I don't have anything to do with it at the moment, and so can't give more detail than I just did, but things like what you're describing are in the pipeline. Also, citation linking. We're in the process of potentially extending our support for both-way citation linking etc., and hopefully that will become more of a focus for further versions of OxS. It should be reasonable to expect to know how much (and by whom) your article is referenced, after which point a whole lot of neat things can happen. It'll happen. It'll all happen. Just takes time. The folks I’m currently working for (http://pkp.sfu.ca) are in the process of outlining an online platform called Open Monograph Press, which will be branched off our current OJS/OCS codebase. The idea is to move monograph writing from an isolated, offline process to something that’s online and collaborative (to varying degrees, of course). It’ll involve some social networking/web 2.0 devices in it to accomplish said objective. There are other objectives too, like saving the monograph from shrinking library budgets, and so on.

I don’t have anything to do with it at the moment, and so can’t give more detail than I just did, but things like what you’re describing are in the pipeline.

Also, citation linking. We’re in the process of potentially extending our support for both-way citation linking etc., and hopefully that will become more of a focus for further versions of OxS. It should be reasonable to expect to know how much (and by whom) your article is referenced, after which point a whole lot of neat things can happen. It’ll happen. It’ll all happen. Just takes time.

]]> Comment on holliday reading by Joseph B. Merrick http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/holliday-reading/#comment-13 Joseph B. Merrick Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:07:53 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/holliday-reading/#comment-13 Bout goddamn time. Funny how after, over a year, I post a comment. And then you update the whole site. I feel tremendously powerful right now. Bout goddamn time. Funny how after, over a year, I post a comment. And then you update the whole site. I feel tremendously powerful right now.

]]> Comment on holliday reading by notmuchbetter http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/holliday-reading/#comment-10 notmuchbetter Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:04:29 +0000 http://notmuchbetter.wordpress.com/2006/12/23/holliday-reading/#comment-10 That's funny about the typo. I've been actually thinking about posting regularly again ... we'll see if can muster up something in less than a year this time. That’s funny about the typo. I’ve been actually thinking about posting regularly again … we’ll see if can muster up something in less than a year this time.

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