Where is the technorati for science? A site that accumulates all abstracts of scientific publications that you can search for – based on content, author, publication, keywords. A site that offers RSS feeds for those searches.
What else could be done with a system like this?
* it would be very easy to stay up-to-date with current scientific progress – new publications on a subject would just appear in your inbox
* there would finally be a single place that would be the source of all your inquiries – your RSS feed reader! User’s choice!
* since RSS feeds can contain quite a bunch of meta data it would be very easy to integrate your reference manager – just point and click and save the abstract plus reference info, directly from the feed reader.
* integrate the system with social reference managers like citeUlike or connotea – making those social networks and meta information much more valuable as well as accessible.
But then Ⅰ just realize this may not ever going to happen – too many publishers are probably afraid of sharing that much freely; the service would probably be even interesting to scientists if it was not for free, if academic discounts are available.
science database, feed, literature, meta information, reference, rss, social software, tagging, technorati
All-right, Ⅰ admit it – Ⅰ am guilty of posting quite a bunch of stuff to the lazyweb. Some other do so as well – but even though the service is really great (thanks to Ben for creating it in the first place) – Ⅰ believe there is another way.
Why not just post your blog entries to a category called „lazyweb“ or include technorati tag „lazyweb“? (You could also trackback to lazyweb.org, but… that defeats my point, if there is one.). This would
1. reduce the number of „empty“ requests to Ben’s site – which are annoying but only slightly.
2. It may increase visibility as there are many more people in the know about technorati.
3. It gives people the chance to post to lazyweb through many different mechanisms, blogs, flickr, furl, del.icio.us …
Basically it would replicate most of what Ben already has – you see a list of posts/questions, see a link to the original post. What you lose is the ability to comment on a question directly on „the lazyweb“ – but then Ⅰ am not so sure if anyone ever used this? (It would be quite useful if Ben’s lazyweb-comment system would trackback back to the original poster’s site, too..)
Ah, just wondering. Actually there is no need for people posting to the web to change much, just add that technorati tag and/or the category.
But *what needs changing* is the visibility to the blogosphere as well as an adopted reader behavior. Will we finally be able to get some forumness and usenet into blogs?
lazyweb technorati, trackback
With the plugin Cat2Tag tags are included in wordpress like they are in flickr or del.icio.us. However – the script doesnt work as well as it should with Safari… or maybe my Safari is completely broken… see previous post?!
Argl.
Oh, can someone integrate this with the technorati tagging system? (or is it because it uses wordpress’s categories which are automatically used by technorati?)
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