CitULike is del.icio.us for academics. It saves citation details and exports them in a couple of standard formats. It aggregates journal articles for your posting pleasure. It encourages long-ish descriptions and lets you assign stars. Nice!
I wonder why del.icio.us isn't as popular as it ought to be. It's takes less effort than writing a blog post, which is why I predict that Google will introduce a "Tag This!" button next to "Blog This!" on their toolbar. Or maybe, given this new site, "Cite This!"
My one theory is that it's linguistically jammed-- it has the complete opposite problem of blogging. The noun blog, after all, inspired "to blog" and the occupational term "blogger" which continue to get stretched beyond coherent activities. Del.icio.us -- cute domain name, but doesn't yet inspire a widespread online practice.
Jon: I think del.icio.us isn't as popular as it could simply because the pages it outputs are very bare, which drives some people away. Note that the linklogging market is split among several offerings - see http://www.irox.de/stat-pdf/socialbookmarks.pdf
Who else has this refence? Who chose cited references? From this communities and cooperators are spottable.
It also needs to hold onto institutional info, author home department and citations. From this info you can get source working papers and data. Hopefully to bypass suffocating publishers and huuuuuuuuuuuuge charges (which most nonEU, US/CA or JP institutions can't afford)
In the end around a quarter of references from my last weeks work were sourced through google scholar, proquest etc via citeulike. It took a lot of crossrefencing work where citeulike could have helped.
Good up to date analysis, information, references and data about many many things exists outside the academy. In social sciences, business and arts there is som uch recycling, cutting and pasting that I don't get that much out of journals any more.
1. Jon Garfunkel on March 13, 2005 12:42 PM writes...
I wonder why del.icio.us isn't as popular as it ought to be. It's takes less effort than writing a blog post, which is why I predict that Google will introduce a "Tag This!" button next to "Blog This!" on their toolbar. Or maybe, given this new site, "Cite This!"
My one theory is that it's linguistically jammed-- it has the complete opposite problem of blogging. The noun blog, after all, inspired "to blog" and the occupational term "blogger" which continue to get stretched beyond coherent activities. Del.icio.us -- cute domain name, but doesn't yet inspire a widespread online practice.
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2. Seb on March 14, 2005 1:18 PM writes...
Jon: I think del.icio.us isn't as popular as it could simply because the pages it outputs are very bare, which drives some people away. Note that the linklogging market is split among several offerings - see http://www.irox.de/stat-pdf/socialbookmarks.pdf
Permalink to Comment3. Rup3rt on March 15, 2005 10:30 AM writes...
The tool needs to grab the interconnections more
Who else has this refence? Who chose cited references? From this communities and cooperators are spottable.
It also needs to hold onto institutional info, author home department and citations. From this info you can get source working papers and data. Hopefully to bypass suffocating publishers and huuuuuuuuuuuuge charges (which most nonEU, US/CA or JP institutions can't afford)
In the end around a quarter of references from my last weeks work were sourced through google scholar, proquest etc via citeulike. It took a lot of crossrefencing work where citeulike could have helped.
Permalink to CommentGood up to date analysis, information, references and data about many many things exists outside the academy. In social sciences, business and arts there is som uch recycling, cutting and pasting that I don't get that much out of journals any more.