{"id":169,"date":"2008-08-06T04:26:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T04:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/06\/on_the_nature_of_networking_3\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T04:26:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T04:26:53","slug":"on_the_nature_of_networking_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/06\/on_the_nature_of_networking_3\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Nature of Networking \u2014 #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/profile\/U42E63119\">Cameron Neylon<\/a> has written an &#8220;open letter&#8221;:http:\/\/blog.openwetware.org\/scienceintheopen\/2008\/08\/06\/an-open-letter-to-the-developers-of-social-network-and-\u2018web-20\u2019-tools-for-scientists\/ to the developers of SciLink and FaceScientist and all the rest of them, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.openwetware.org\/scienceintheopen\/2008\/08\/01\/facebooks-for-scientists-theyre-breeding-like-rabbits\/\">pleading<\/a> for some sort of cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the less rarefied atmosphere of the world outside of Science, social networking sites have come and gone or given up to MySpace and Facebook (I&#8217;m going to ignore weblogs because they&#8217;re not really social sites in this sense). Cameron is concerned that in the MyBook\/FaceSpace battle for scientists we&#8217;ll be left with nothing. The relatively small size of our (potential) community counts against us being able to support a number of such tools, as <a href=\"http:\/\/mndoci.com\/blog\/\">Deepak<\/a> quite rightly &#8220;comments&#8221;:http:\/\/blog.openwetware.org\/scienceintheopen\/2008\/08\/06\/an-open-letter-to-the-developers-of-social-network-and-\u2018web-20\u2019-tools-for-scientists\/#comments.<\/p>\n<p>\nCameron plans to email the letter to anyone he can find. So I suggest that you leave a &#8220;comment&#8221;:http:\/\/blog.openwetware.org\/scienceintheopen\/2008\/08\/06\/an-open-letter-to-the-developers-of-social-network-and-\u2018web-20\u2019-tools-for-scientists\/ if you (think you) know who it would be good to <del>bully<\/del> encourage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Neylon has written an &#8220;open letter&#8221;:http:\/\/blog.openwetware.org\/scienceintheopen\/2008\/08\/06\/an-open-letter-to-the-developers-of-social-network-and-\u2018web-20\u2019-tools-for-scientists\/ to the developers of SciLink and FaceScientist and all the rest of them, pleading for some sort of cooperation. In the less rarefied atmosphere of the world outside of Science, social networking sites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/06\/on_the_nature_of_networking_3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}