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Connecting sources
Update: I can't, for the life of me, find this organization on the web. I have link below, but... it's old and not very good. And a google search isn't much help. Ideas?
Yesterday afternoon I went to a talk by science writer Glennda Chui -- she is in Madison as the School of Journalism's Science Writer in Residence. It was a great talk, though one mention in particular caught my attention...
The Institute for Scientific Information is a group that scans citations in academic journals in order to create a database of "the most significant [and most cited] scientific literature."
This sounds an awful lot like blogosphere.US, technorati, blogdex, and others. After all, what are hypertext links but handier citations?
Chui's talk centered around the abundance of information in our society, how it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to remain well-informed. She "has some hope that the internet may alleviate this problem" -- and well, so do I.
Bloggers, start your engines.