New Scientist.  Scientists make eggregious citation errors in published papers that mushroom in their effect.  This wouldn't have happened if these papers were published to the Web (open to interconnection) and had a peer review process like Weblogs do.  Make a lousy link and a couple of people will call you on it in a less than a few hours after posting it.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

This does not come as a surprised, but a lot of the mistakes are actually not committed by the scientist. They are actually embedded in the way citations are counted which is neither scientific not very efective, just a self serving enterprise with a scientific sounding name...

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Since the strike started I had had few good days. Today was one. My friend Sumito Estévez spent the day at my place with his wife. While our children played we enjoyed a grown up conversation. Good food and wine was a plenty. What a nice change of pace!

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U.S. Urges Early Elections in Venezuela. The United States on Friday raised pressure on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to call early elections, saying they would be the only "peaceful, viable" way out of the country's political turmoil. By Reuters. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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What the OAS Human Rights Commission said today.

This is a press report of what was said today  by the Organization of American States' Human Rights Commission. It is nice to know somebody outside has an understanding of what is going on.

[From The Devil's Excrement]

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