an incubator initiative of Harvard University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

A human-machine approach to annotation framework (contested collective intelligence)

Another effort to build an open annotation framework

Heather Morrison has released a draft of her doctoral thesis Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age.

five factors - peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata - as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles,

another useful directory

What distinguished programmers at the top-performing companies wasn't greater experience or better pay. It was how much privacy, personal workspace and freedom from interruption they enjoyed. Sixty-two percent of the best performers said their workspace was sufficiently private compared with only 19 percent of the worst performers. Seventy-six percent of the worst programmers but only 38 percent of the best said that they were often interrupted needlessly.

In an edited excerpt from his new book, Too Big to Know, David Weinberger explains how the massive amounts of data necessary to deal with complex phenomena exceed any single brain's ability to grasp, yet networked science rolls on.