Taking stock of social media: lessons learned from a botanical database
Michael GallagherThe last post I wrote on the use of DISQUS for crowdsourcing academic data has led my wandering brain to this one, a post taking stock of close to two…
DISQUS and Crowdsourcing Academic Data
I am not sure what exactly compelled me to write this post today aside from the fact that I had a few spare minutes to do so. I will briefly…
Data for Research (DfR) as learning tool: visualizing ephemeral academic language
I work with Data for Research (DfR) quite a bit as part of my professional duties and wanted to pass along some observations I had regarding its application as a…
Low-tech, high-impact storytelling with Flip cameras; experiences from the world of plant taxonomy
I rarely will pull over a post in its entirety from a work blog, but I love these videos and the nice collaborative spirit that went in to making them.…
JSTOR Plant Science videos and #mLearn2011
That title is actually two differnet topics just bunched together under one blog post. They aren't related. Heading out to Beijing on Monday for mLearn 2011 conference (#mlearn2011) where I…
To Live and Dye in Korea at the end of the 19th century (via )
I am perhaps a bit more amused by the post title than I am anything else, but I love this kind of blogging. Pseudo-academic, ephemeral, fast, and enough left over…
Ernest Henry Wilson and early encounters with Quelpaert, aka Jeju, Korea (via )
For those of you who like their Korean history (as I do) and those early turn of the century (last) encounters as Korea plunged headlong into modernity. Generally at the…