{"id":536,"date":"2010-05-04T00:42:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talyarkoni.org\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2010-05-04T00:43:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T06:43:53","slug":"in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/in-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"in brief&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some neat stuff from the past week or so:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how to go about getting a commentary on an article published in a peer-reviewed journal, wonder no longer&#8230; you can&#8217;t. Or rather, you can, but it may not be worth your trouble. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/catdynamics\/upload\/2009\/08\/how_to_publish_a_scientific_co\/How%20to%20Publish%20a%20Comment.pdf\">Rick Trebino explains<\/a>. [new to me via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acthomas.ca\/comment\/2010\/04\/a-worthy.html\">A.C. Thomas<\/a>, though <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2009\/08\/the_saga_of_the_journal_commen.php\">apparently<\/a> this one&#8217;s been around for a while.]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/02\/magazine\/02self-measurement-t.html\">The data-driven life<\/a>: A great article in the NYT magazine discusses the growing number of people who&#8217;re quantitatively recording the details of every aspect of their lives, from mood to glucose levels to movement patterns. I dabbled with this a few years ago, recording my mood, diet, and exercise levels for about 6 months. I&#8217;m not sure how much I learned that was actually useful, but if nothing else, it&#8217;s a fun exercise to play aroundwith a giant matrix of correlations that are all about YOU.<\/li>\n<li>Cameron Neylon has an excellent post up <a href=\"http:\/\/cameronneylon.net\/blog\/in-defence-of-author-pays-business-models\/\">defending the viability<\/a> (and superiority) of the author-pays model of publication.<\/li>\n<li>In typical fashion, Carl Zimmer has a wonderful blog up post explaining why <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/04\/26\/why-madagascars-tapeworms-matter-to-you\/\">tapeworms in Madagascar<\/a> tell us something important about human evolution.<\/li>\n<li>The World Bank, as you might expect, has accumulated a lot of economic data. For years, they&#8217;ve been selling it at a premium, but as of 2010 the World Development Indicators are completely <a href=\"http:\/\/data.worldbank.org\">free to access<\/a>. via [via <a href=\"http:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2010\/04\/20\/world-data-released-is-a-dream-come-true\/\">Flowing Data<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Every tried Jew&#8217;s Ear Juice? No? In China, you can&#8211;but not for long, if the government has its way. The NYT reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/03\/world\/asia\/03chinglish.html\">efforts to eradicate Chinglish<\/a> in public. Money quote:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The purpose of signage is to be useful, not to be amusing,&#8221; said Zhao Huimin, the former Chinese ambassador to the United States who, as director general of the capital&#8217;s Foreign Affairs Office, has been leading the fight for linguistic standardization and sobriety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Josh Hartshorne has an excellent 9-part series of posts up on <a href=\"http:\/\/gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com\/search\/label\/Web%20Experiment%20Tutorial\">how to create Web-based experiments in Flash<\/a>. My own <a href=\"http:\/\/e-xperiments.org\">web-based studies<\/a>, which mostly involve questionnaires and rating tasks, are usually written in <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyonrails.org\/\">Ruby on Rails<\/a> and javascript. But Flash is probably a better way to go if your experiments are heavy on multimedia and\/or user interaction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some neat stuff from the past week or so: If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how to go about getting a commentary on an article published in a peer-reviewed journal, wonder no longer&#8230; you can&#8217;t. Or rather, you can, but it may not be worth your trouble. Rick Trebino explains. [new to me via A.C. Thomas, though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/in-brief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">in brief&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[175,3],"tags":[240,311,33,313,310,308,306,305,307,312,309],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEZxN-8E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talyarkoni.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}