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Despite it being summer holidays there were a lot of submission for the latest Scientia Blog Carnival: Scientia Pro Publica. So let's start. If you want to know more about the dance of bees, the waggle dance (yes it really exists) have fun over at More than Honey, The Making of a Bee Documentary and it's post Out with the Radar Bees. It has all the ins and outs on he famous „dance-language“ of the honeybees. Quantum Mechanics something very complicated or a conspiracy of instrumentalists? The Truth Re-Revealed at This Scientific Life. As human beings, believe it or not, we've a lot .....read more »

This blog will be the location for the next edition of the Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival on August the 30th. You can submit your posts by using this automated submission form . They are still seeking hosts for upcoming issues; we still have some open hosting slots through the end of 2010 [see schedule]. If you have always wanted to host an issue of Scientia Pro Publica on your blog, now is your chance! The purpose of this blog carnival is simple: to provide a large public platform that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing published within .....read more »

Now that's a very interesting idea. The end of the social media decade, starting the new decade: The Decade of Games. How to use this layer to get people to take their medication on time? Watch this video and enjoy. By now, we're used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web -- building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer in progress: the "game layer," a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce. Related posts:Online Gaming Can Make a Beter .....read more »

In normal every day life with face to face contact the physical characteristics and knowledge about social background form the identity of your contact. It's stable and three dimensional. You know that person, it's therefor very difficult for the other to claim another identity or create impressions inconsistent with how you know him or her. Online identity is a different topic. You can create ideal identities not necessarily overlapping your real identity. It's a controlled setting in which you can create different identities from the person you really are. Moreover, from research it has been shown that people act .....read more »

Raindrop UX Design and Demo from Mozilla Messaging on Vimeo. Raindrop is an open source project by Mozilla. What is should do according to this video is organize your email for you, no need for filtering any more. It should recognize your personal email from the bulk such as emails from Amazon, mailing lists and other less interesting emails. It should also recognize the difference between twitter updates, twitter replies and direct messages from twitter. The promise is also that it will be extend-able so that you can decide which functionality is needed. We intend to support front-end applications of various .....read more »

Most bloggers are gmail lovers. In this video 10 very clever tricks, some of you might know them already but for those low on the nerd scale, enjoy Related posts:Google Apps Tricks Gmail Priority Inbox Top 10 pdf tricks ..read more »

An excellent medlib round at Highlight Health. This edition is all about how social media is being used to promote health information online. Besides links to posts on blogs about twitter, facebook, and other social media in Health and Medicine the autor also proposes to tweet and share posts using the Twitter hashtags #medinfo and #medlibs. If you like a particular post, share it with your friends and be sure to add both hashtags. Related posts:Finding Credible Health Information Online: MedLibs Round 1.8 MedLibs Round 2.6 is up at Laika’s MedLibLog MedLib’s Round 1.9 about social media and web services ..read more »

I write likeDavid Foster WallaceI Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! I write like: David Foster Wallace. Tried it thanks to Dr Deb Just cut and paste a section of something you've written to see what famous author writes like you do! Related posts:Archive the WEB, write a book on the web or use livescribe offline Hands On Experience with ECT Found a new depression center ..read more »

This is an excellent but very fast review of e-readers. Myself, I have two e-readers. The first one was an Iliad e-reader with wifi. Bought it with a newspaper subscription. It reads very easy, even in sunlight. The wifi is hard to use. Downloading the newspaper in foreign countries seldom succeeded. Mostly had to plug the e reader into the router of the hotel. In general file format is a big issue. Not all file formats are supported by all e readers. My other e reader is a Kindle. Also easy to use. The international edition can be used to .....read more »