All of this is true, but the article doesn't refer to commercial research.

Some scientists just don't "get" the value of sharing, just as in other areas of endeavour. I suspect some fossilised relic at the top of this organisation.

Here is my nice chewy data on climate and temperature stuff that I'll add to, with analysis as time allows and people find data for me.

My conclusion so far: it's very unlikely not to be co2 responsible for most of the warming we've observed since the 70s, it's likely to get much worse, and there don't seem to be any viable alternative explanations.

My wife (who is a physics teacher who has taught electronics) says the following:

Dick Smith (if they are in the us, maybe something similar) sells kits with full instructions. they need to be soldered, but year 9s should be able to do this - I had year 8s solder successfully. they will need to be reminded of first aid treatment for burns first. they can build light detectors, movement detectors, radio recievers, sirens, simple electric pianos etc.

(Disclaimer: IHAPSITF - I have a PhD scholarship in this field).

In most healthcare systems, staff are very busy, and computer illiteracy is rife. To get good with these electronic systems you've got to use them constantly, and when half the staff or more don't understand why they're doing a particular thing in a particular way. There's also a workplace culture of written notes, and often a limited number of computer terminals per staff member. So with queuing for terminals, fairly high friction processes for retrieving data and so on and so forth, there are quite high barriers to entry from a human point of view.

Don't get me wrong, EHRs have potential, and can reap benifits (especially for management - they can also make floor staff's job harder). Some kind of robust iphone-like device which is a secure platform for data entry and retrieval, might make it sufficiently easy and efficient from an end-user's perspective to decrease implementation barriers.

+1

Thirded. I've also built my own phrase index on top of zotero using Perl and OpenCalais.

So they recast their company activities to be in line with their company motto. Hopefully they run down the path to irellevance quick smart!

and git.

I'm writing a substantial work in pod (perl's doc format) using git for vc at the moment, with 5 authors.Works fine, painless, reviewing changes is easy and everything is pretty low friction. Plain text is so much easier to work with than anything else I've ever come across.

So move over to academic work, I find word's track changes a pain to work with, especially with more than 1 other author compared to good old diff -u.

So I'm going to try to write my next big work with Pandoc using citeproc and Zotero for citation and collection management. I'll get back to you in three years time to tell you how it went.

In the early 90s, there was a recession and linux was created about the same time. Around the turn of the century there was the dot-com bust, and at that time we got bittorrent. These are both pretty revolutionary bits of software. So yes, I'm quite keen to see what free software innovation that this recession fosters :)