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By clock on October 8, 2007.

Some good, thought-provoking reads about the Web, social networking, publishing and blogging:

Aggregating scientific activity

Social Networks at Work Promise Bottom-Line Results

Would limiting career publication number revamp scientific publishing?

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The Seven Principles of Community Building

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