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1 December 2008 by Victor

LabTimes: Web 2.0 for Science – A Conversation with Yours Truly

The current issue of LabTimes, a printed news magazine for the European Life Sciences, contains a 3-pagestart up life academic features LabTimes: Web 2.0 for Science A Conversation with Yours Truly conversation with yours truly, plus a boyishly handsome, yet slightly awkward glamour shot photo of me at my hectically cleaned-up beautiful desk.

It’s a nice interview, with one caveat: There’s a mistake in the opening paragraph. While we use Open Source tools for development, and occasionally contribute code to these tools, Mendeley itself is not Open Source (although that’s an option for the future).

You can download the interview in PDF format here.

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  • December 1, 2008 at 2:01 pm Björn Brembs
    That whole issue is just stuffed with great content :-)
  • December 1, 2008 at 6:18 pm Martin Fenner
    You never told us that you rented your first office space from Michael Palin.
  • December 1, 2008 at 6:35 pm pn
    Hey, now you just need to make Mendeley "usable". That's a start.
  • December 1, 2008 at 7:50 pm Thomas Lemberger
    hmmm, they just took all the little drawings from our blog The Seven Stones, without asking, without attribution, and this...in the article about open access ()!!! Bitter disillusion... I like it but I don't like it!
  • December 1, 2008 at 8:11 pm Victor / Mendeley Team
    Martin: But we could never convince him to do the Ministry of Silly Walks for us! Seriously though, he's a really nice guy, and the office was great - right around the corner from Covent Garden (except that there were a few too many dead parrots lying around). Paulo: We'll try our best! You're certainly right that we still have many things to improve. Yet, sometimes I feel as if you're a little hostile.
  • December 1, 2008 at 11:37 pm Mr. Gunn
    They should return those dead parrots back to the shopkeeper and get a refund. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218
  • December 2, 2008 at 12:22 am Shirley Wu
    Only PDF files!? Please, at least excerpts or abstracts or something...
  • December 2, 2008 at 3:34 am Bill Hooker
    In case anyone else is wondering: The Seven Stones has a CC-BY license right on the front page, so for an apparently commercial publication (judging from all the ads in the pdfs) to swipe their images and not even bother with attribution is exceedingly shitty.
  • December 2, 2008 at 4:16 am Victor / Mendeley Team
    I didn't receive a printed copy of the magazine, but don't they sometimes assemble all the picture credits on a single page somewhere? Maybe that's where the attribution is hidden? Otherwise, not nice indeed.
  • December 2, 2008 at 5:47 am Björn Brembs
    I know some of the people of this publication and have the full paper copy here. I'll check this issue and will contact them, if I can't find anything.

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