When doing Web ethnography I capture many Web pages (blogs, conversations, etc.) for inclusion in my mindmap and bibliography. BusySponge's custom heuristics for scraping metadata (author, title, date, organization) from a specific site (e.g., Wikipedia or MARC email lists) are spot on. I'm fairly happy with the ...
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There are hundreds of CSL bibliography styles (including a github repository) but its not easy to browse or search them -- the Zotero Style Repository uses annoying javascript popups. Fortunately, pandoc can easily create such a catalog.
rm catalog.md; for f in ~/.csl/*.csl; do echo $f; echo -e "\n ...
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I made good use of pyblosxom for many years but its time to move on. Pyblosxom development is no longer very active. Also, its reliance upon file mtimes for entry dates led to old entries popping back up and I had to whack them back down with touch -d. (Pyblosxom ...
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With Zotero and Mendeley providing excellent web-centric bibliographic tools, I don’t imagine I’ll ever get converts to Thunderdell. Still, it and BusySponge are integral to how I work and I enjoy the occasional Python programming. Some disjointed thoughts from the bibliographic screen-scraping front.
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Sometimes things happen in the world that researchers could never make happen on there own, but when it does happen, much can be learned. For example, in Group Size And Incentives To Contribute: A Natural Experiment At Chinese Wikipedia Zhang and Zhu analyzed the effect of China blocking access to ...
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Today at the Berkman Center, Eszter Hargittai asked about Web browsers' address bars. For example, when did people stop having to type http:// and when did https:// first make its appearance? (Wikipedia's entries on the address bar and HTTPS are some of the best sources I've found so ...
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The MediaWiki experience can be as frustrating to a hacker as it is for a newbie. Editing on the Web page is annoying and the syntax is atrocious. For myself, I prefer using Markdown syntax, a good text editor, pandoc, and a distributed version control system (VCS). (That's how ...
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For a number of years now I've been using NaturallySpeaking speech recognition via a virtualized Windows environment on Ubuntu. Speech recognition gurus will recommend using an external USB sound card so as to avoid any electrical interference common with soundcards within the computer case. This is fine for the ...
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As a PhD student, one of the first bibliographic annoyances I encountered was when I had to format a paper using the APA system, which requires titles to be in sentence-case. This means only the first word of a phrase and proper nouns are capitalized. Previously, I had kept the ...
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