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  1. @jasonhoyt Sounds cool, thanks Jason! Will keep an eye out then.
  2. @mendeley_com are there any plans to produce RSS feeds for people's libraries on Mendeley web? Or export some other way?
  3. Awesome - Amazon to annually grant $1 million worth of use of its hosted computing services to academics http://tinyurl.com/lqt34e
  4. RT @benlund Academia.edu just hit 50,000 profiles! http://www.academia.edu
  5. The NPG vending machine is full of Polish knock-off chocolate (thus maximizing profit), it's pretty depressing. All I want is a Wispa.
  6. (figure the ceremony must be finished by now) congrats @IanMulvany!
  7. Connotea is moving to a new datacentre - it's temporarily down.
  8. SciFoo '09 looks awesome, wish I was going! Have fun @dhunk @twalf @berci!
  9. Hadn't seen this Neil deGrasse Tyson rebuking Richard Dawkins vid before: http://bit.ly/191rWo (via @marcoscarvalho)
  10. Kumar from Harold & Kumar works at the White House now: http://bit.ly/Po48Y
  11. re: Kabuki dance: not because it doesn't work but because it's seemingly everywhere. See O'Reilly Radar for most recent example.
  12. Can we all stop comparing anything even faintly systematic to a "kabuki dance"? ;)
  13. Journals with "newsy" and front half content look v. different (with big social media sites occasionally creeping into top ten referrers)
  14. For comparison that's a couple of orders of magnitude less than the main referrers to journals.
  15. From week of referrers to mid-tier biomed journal: ~100 visits from blogs, 20 from CiteULike, 50 from F1000, 2 each from Facebook, Twitter.
  16. Updated Streamosphere: http://tinyurl.com/mazwkr
  17. @scottkeir more like a "get me the identifier for this paper" service.
  18. @rdmpage didn't work on the examples I tried. :( OpenURL lookups reminded me of CrossRef's blog plugin, though. That technique might work.
  19. Bonus points if you can handle articles without a DOI and preprints.
  20. 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...