Authorea

Authorea is a scientific publication-specific editor in the browser.  That's pretty rock-n-roll.  Free for open science publications, paid for private publications.  Nice model!

Research tools

So people have been tweeting academic papers in PDF in memory of Aaron Swartz, and wouldn't it be interesting to index them properly and kind of do an Open JSTOR?

• The index of links tweeted to #PDFtribute
• HNN thread
• A Wiki for a research organization tool
• Executable research
• Modeling research literature

Social network sleuthing

Neat post on how social network charting was used to bust some slumlord fraudsters in Chicago. [hnn] Prompted a post of this fascinating picture, which was generated at least in part with this code. Finally also prompted a link to sharesleuth.com, a Mark Cuban project tracking securities fraud. I do so love reading about detective work.

Visual Modeling and Programming with Graph Transformations

Dorothea Blostein at the University of Queensland is really into some very cool stuff. (Ran across her at the link from the previous post - she's working in knowledge representation.)

Graph transformation languages look really neat. She's written a book. It's in pieces of PDF on her site, so I should download them - but I don't really have an effective way to organize downloaded PDFs and papers yet, so instead I've just linked to her page, above.