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Weekly Science Picks

Danica Radovanovic — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:51:47 +0000

Last weekend in January brought exciting and interesting events, reports, and readings. Monthly editorial is coming out next week, don’t miss wonderful readings written by Australian Science writers and bloggers. Enjoy in this week science picks, and have a great weekend!

Library services in the digital age – new report by the Pew Internet Research

The internet has already had a major impact on how people find and access information, and now the rising popularity of e-books is helping transform Americans’ reading habits. In this changing landscape, public libraries are trying to adjust their services to these new realities while still serving the needs of patrons who rely on more traditional resources. In a new survey of Americans’ attitudes and expectations for public libraries, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project finds that many library patrons are eager to see libraries’ digital services expand, yet also feel that print books remain important in the digital age.

In the past generation, public libraries have reinvented themselves to become technology hubs in order to help their communities access information in all its new forms,

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Occupy the Internet! Why is so viral this expression?

Rares — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:17:12 +0000

The animated occupation soldiers are in front of the line and they espect the orders to occupy the internet. This is a real battle, because people took to the streets of internet to show their messages. Many websites are occupied, in fact there is a list with the websites currently being occupied. fffff.at published here a list with such websites and you can use the Occupy Service. You copy and paste a code into any HTML page to your website or to websites you control (or, attention, you can get control of).

This thing represents the effect of some acts like SOPA, PIPA or ACTA. Occupation movement implies an “army

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ScienceOnline2012 – The power of the Scientific Community

Danica Radovanovic — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:23:16 +0000

I want to share some of my personal experiences from the past meetings of the Science online unconference as someone who have participated and attended the conference. I have attended Science Online twice: I have held a session on Open access e-resources in the networked world (2009) and held a workshop – Social Media for the Scientists (2010); interacted, being overwhelmed with positive energy, had wonderful conversations with scientists, journalists, educators, bloggers, Web developers, and scholars.

And it all started several years ago, thanks to the initiative and organization of Bora Zivkovic and Anton Zuiker, in Bora’s words:

“…upon my return from a bloggercon of some kind, I was enthused by the atmosphere at the event and thought to myself how nice it would be to have something similar but with a focus on science. I posted my thoughts on the blog and received many enthusiastic comments and e-mails. But I did not really have a good concept or ideas how to actually make it happen.

Enter Anton Zuiker. At one of our regular monthly blogger meetups which he organized at the time, Anton took me aside and suggested we work on this project together. It was do-able, he thought, if we did it smart.

Several months later, the first conference became a reality.

And people loved it and made sure we understood that this was not going to be a one-time event, but something we’ll have to organize every year. So we did.

Cite this article:
Radovanovic D (2012-01-13 10:23:16). ScienceOnline2012 – The power of the Scientific Community. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 08, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/science-2/scienceonline2012-the-power-of-the-scientific-community/
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WWW12 Conference: Transformation of the Social Web

Danica Radovanovic — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:55:43 +0000

This year the World Wide Web conference (or WWW12) is taking place in Europe (Lyon, France) . It was first conceived as an idea in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva while the first conference of the series was held in 1994. Ever since then World Wide Webn has became an annual event changing location between North America, Europe, and Asia. The official keynote speakers are announced, and we can expect interesting forum for researchers and practitioners in Web technologies to discuss and exchange positions on current and emergent Web topics.

The WWW Conference series aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardisation of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conferences bring together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures – indeed all who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer; it is stated as the primary mission of the conference. The series provides an open forum in which all opinions can be presented, subject to a strict process of peer review.

What is interesting for WWW12 is that this year the specific focus is the most important topics on a global concern in information-communication and web technologies in our society. The focus is on the social evolution on how web changes our world (World Digital Solidarity), how to reduce digital divide and social inequalities using the web (remember previous discussions of mine on digital divides and what I said). Another is Web Accessibility initiative that aims on “web for all

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Radovanovic D (2012-01-11 07:55:43). WWW12 Conference: Transformation of the Social Web. Australian Science. Retrieved: May 08, 2024, from http://australianscience.com.au/internet-2/www12-conference-transformation-of-the-social-web/

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