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Using the Active Voice to Strengthen Your Writing
via Daily Writing Tips by Ali on June 02, 2008
Writing in the active voice means constructing sentences where the subject “acts”:I threw the ball.You are making too much noise.Ben will eat popcorn and watch a movie tomorrow evening.In each of these sentences, the subject (I, You and Ben respectively) performs the action of the verb (threw, making, will watch). The sentences are punchy, direct and make it clear who’s doing what.Writing...
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Elsevier 收集的科技写作与报告的指南和课程摘要
via 格致 - 科学的乐趣 by Yan on June 02, 2008
Elsevier 收集的一些国外大学有关科技写作与报告的指南和课程摘要：1. Purdue: Mathematical writing: Tips and Guidelines2. Dr. Annalisa Crannell， Franklin & Marshall College3. PSU: Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students4. John Wilkins, Ohio State U: Writing & speaking about physics & astronomy5. Gary Ritchison: Scientific Literature and Writing - Biology6....
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Building Academic Library 2.0
via Library Views 圖書館觀點 by ted on June 01, 2008
這是 Meredith Farkas 去年 11月在 UC Berkeley “The Academic Library 2.0 conference” 的演講資料，雖然已經過了半年，但仍然具參考與學習的價值。特別是 Farkas 本身是一位參考館員，一直以來並不特別強調 Library 2.0，從她的角度來看如何建立大學圖書館 2.0...
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Google Search Quality 官方说明
via roger的鲜果推荐 by guwendong on May 31, 2008
... are other teams devoted to particular projectsPageRank[1] is still in use today, but it is now a part of a much larger system. ... made significant changes to the PageRank algorithm in January, 2008.some other partslanguage models (the ability to handle phrases, synonyms, diacritics, spelling mistakes, and so on)query models (it's not just the language, it's how people use it today...
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GigaOM Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
via GigaOM by Om Malik on May 30, 2008
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos was one of the attendees at this week’s D6 Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., to be interviewed on stage, where he talked about Kindle at length. But right after his chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, I caught up with him to discuss Amazon Web Services and his company’s efforts in cloud computing. Here is a short excerpt from that conversation,...
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Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?
via roger的鲜果推荐 by Aaron Rowe on May 30, 2008
There is some funny math in the world of academic science. Take my graduate school for example: My class was made up of eight people -- seven women and one man, or 7 to 1. He was Snow White and we were the seven dwarves -- each with a remarkably appropriate nickname. I was Grumpy, should you be curious to know. Snow White and at least four of the dwarves have continued on to postdoctoral research...
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Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond: Update
via ReadWriteWeb by Richard MacManus on May 29, 2008
Today I gave a presentation at the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand, entitled: What's Next on the Web? Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond. It was an update of a presentation I gave in Sydney in March. It covers some of the top trends we track on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.The presentation...
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Who Owns Blog Comments?
via Silicon Alley Insider by Hank Williams on May 29, 2008
There is obviously lots of discussion about copyright around things like music and video on the Internet, but another area that is going to be very important that is only recently getting attention is the ownership of comments.This issue came to the fore recently when Robert Scoble commented on a post from Rob La Gesse's blog. The problem is that Scoble commented using Friendfeed instead of...
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Do What You Like With My Comments
via The Last Podcast by Frederic on May 29, 2008
Steven Hodson has some interesting thoughts on the discussion around who own blog comments:Well let’s set one thing straight right off the bat - comments are not frikken creative content for crying out loud. It doesn’t matter whether you make them on a blog or at the corner coffee shop. Once you open your mouth or type the words they are gone - they are no longer yours. Sure you should be...
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Placebo pills made for kids
via Boing Boing - AideRSS (Best) by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
The Placebo Store sells cherry-flavored chewable tablets called Obecalp (get it?) for parents to administer when they don't think their kid is really sick. Hi. Welcome to the Placebo Store. I'm Jen. I am a mommy. It's what I love. It's my job to make owies go away. Whether it's a kiss or a big hug, the magic happens immediately. This is the power of placebo. I have a baby...
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