Disqus - Latest Comments for nuin

Re: Google Scholar metadata quality and Mendeley hype

Mr. Gunn — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:27:24 -0000

The developers responded to your concerns the first few times you raised them earlier in on your blog and friendfeed. Not much new to say there. Regarding the PR issue, though, Mendeley has been very diligent about listening and responding to the community. Hundreds of people on twitter alone are liking it, including some people who you and I both know and respect. Could that be all spin?

Re: Google Scholar metadata quality and Mendeley hype

nuin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:14:39 -0000

Ideally publishers should help on the extraction, maybe adding better metadata to the pdfs, even creating better filenames. But we know they won't do that if there's no clear commercial benefit, so we have to rely on Google's mammoth structure to actually spend some time working on it, or expect that that Mendeley's PR gets halted and allow them to spend some time actually coding.

About my harsh critics of Mendeley, they are not without merit. First, it's a PR-only-software with horrible usability and even worse performance. Second, the hype. And third, the attempted censorship of my critics. But that's just me.

Re: Google Scholar metadata quality and Mendeley hype

rdmpage — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:18:34 -0000

Gosh, and I thought I could be a hash critic! I agree there's a lot that could be done to improve getting metadata out of PDFs. There's a growing literature on this problem. In one sense, of course, it's crazy that we have to go down this route, but we don't have much choice. It's the price we pay for "what you see is what you get".

Re: Google Scholar metadata quality and Mendeley hype

nuin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:26:15 -0000

That Mendeley page is nauseating. And why would they keep Ricardo's My Biotech Life "review" there when he's a paid employee of the company?

The problem of extracting metadata from publications is a problem too hard for Mendeley's staff to understand. They are too busy praising themselves and seeing ways to improve their failed PR machine.

It's sad that Google is not investing hard on this type of problem, it would be a godsend.

Re: Science and pies. - The mammal was filmed in the summer of 2008 during...

nuin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:42:08 -0000

I bet he (or she) has dual citizenship.

Re: MySocial 24x7 - Companion for FriendFeed

nuin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:55:33 -0000

Hi
You may have forgotten from the development that your application is adding a "Your menuitem" item on Firefox's right click menu. If you click this, it shows a message box with "Hello world" on it. I uninstalled MySocial just to check and the item disappeared.
Paulo