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Connotea is moving to a new datacentre - it's temporarily down.about 3 hours agofrom web
re: Kabuki dance: not because it doesn't work but because it's seemingly everywhere. See O'Reilly Radar for most recent example.4:10 AM Jul 8thfrom web
Can we all stop comparing anything even faintly systematic to a "kabuki dance"? ;)3:59 AM Jul 8thfrom web
Journals with "newsy" and front half content look v. different (with big social media sites occasionally creeping into top ten referrers)8:28 AM Jul 7thfrom web
For comparison that's a couple of orders of magnitude less than the main referrers to journals.8:26 AM Jul 7thfrom web
From week of referrers to mid-tier biomed journal: ~100 visits from blogs, 20 from CiteULike, 50 from F1000, 2 each from Facebook, Twitter.8:23 AM Jul 7thfrom web
@rdmpage didn't work on the examples I tried. :( OpenURL lookups reminded me of CrossRef's blog plugin, though. That technique might work.12:04 PM Jul 6thfrom web
Bonus points if you can handle articles without a DOI and preprints.11:49 AM Jul 6thfrom web
If anybody wants to write a stable & precise article URL to DOI web service (a la Connotea and Bibsonomy) I promise there's a market...11:47 AM Jul 6thfrom web
Been to eye hospital. Doctor suggested cutting back on screen staring time. Unsure how to translate this into practice.7:15 AM Jul 6thfrom web
