Image via Wikipedia Update: Round-up of comments from this blog and Reddit, with some great new ideas and sites. I remember discussing with a friend of mine whether it would ever be possible to program in Chinese. Of course, computer language isn’t quite human language, but most computer languages today are heavily based on English, [...]

I spent a year studying in Sweden, and really enjoyed getting to know better our neighbour, that Norwegians always make fun of (they tell us the same jokes back, with Norwegians in the stupid roles, so it works both ways). I love the Swedish language, and often read Swedish novels, or download audiobooks (my latest [...]

Why do we need theories? At some stage early in my education, I picked up the idea that theory, although perhaps often seemingly too abstract and difficult to understand to be of any use, was important to give meaning to different empirical results, and to provide predictability and transferability to other cases. This was brought [...]

Through Willinsky’s book “The Access Principle“, I came across the site African Journals Online, which is trying to make African journals more visible, and alleviate the problem that many of them are not being indexed in commercial indexing systems like SSCI, and have low visibility both to Western researchers, but also to researchers in other [...]

Image via Wikipedia I have previously written about the OpenLibrary, both how much I liked their interface, and how it frustrated me that they didn’t communicate better to the public about their progress. Recently, a workshop was held in San Francisco, “to share progress and plans for continued growth of open web access to digital [...]