computing & internet

Google Reader: Parting Notes

March 15, 2013
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If you use Google’s feedreader known as Reader or pay any attention to the internet, you may have heard that Google Reader will no longer exist at mid-year. These are some of my comments on its retirement. 1. Read my friend Bob Plankers’s post in its entirety: What Content Creators and Consumers Should Do Now [...]

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Science Online: Information Sharing First; The Medium Is Not The Message

February 26, 2013

Recently, several geobloggers brought up an excellent point on science communication: Now that it has been established that researchers need to do more outreach to share their work, HOW? The barriers are plenty – sharing on the internet takes energy, time, some understanding of the different online outlets, putting words together in an explanatory and [...]

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Find Wet Stuff in Harder, Not-Wet Stuff

January 17, 2013

Remember when xkcd described how a rocket works using only the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language? “Saturn V Rocket” isn’t in the list, so it was reduced to “Up-Goer Five.” Now Theo Sanderson has created an Up-Goer Five text “editor” into which you can type anything you want and it warns [...]

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Sick and Better

December 19, 2012
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Amazing. Two weeks to the day after losing my voice, it is back completely. On my way to the doctor, a friend told me not to bother as “it’s a 14-day thing that’s going around in the south” and will disappear on its own with rest and hydration. Who ever heard of a two-week virus? [...]

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Together In Electric Dreams: The SEG IQEarth Workshop and My Thoughts On The Future Of Seismic Interpretation

December 5, 2012
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Oil and gas production comes from oil and gas exploration. By the time a drop of oil is produced, decades will have gone into discovering, delineating and developing a subsurface reservoir. Exploration and field development require a long-term analysis of seismic images, rock and fluid properties from well logs, core data and any other remote [...]

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November 27, 2012
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Love, love, love work but it has me pinned under a landslide of maps, volumes and other deliverables. Yes, I used the word “deliverable” on this blog, which should tell you something about my current state of mind. Before you think I’m turning droid, other upcoming products include chana masala (pictured above), pedas and apple [...]

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Time Again To Help Out Public Science Classrooms In Need!

October 16, 2012
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Where did the year go? Here we are at another Ada Lovelace Day celebrating women scientists, technologists and engineers everywhere. A perfect day to start another annual DonorsChoose campaign to raise money for needy American science classrooms. To quote an email from Janet Stemwedel, our fearless Science Bloggers for Students wrangler: Once again, science bloggers [...]

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The Fall 2012 Check-In: Mentoring, Future of Geoscience, Being Crafty

October 5, 2012
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I was going to start this post with “Been busy doing a lot lately,” but when am I not Busy Doing A Lot Lately? As I go from assignment to task to project to meeting, the blog comes to mind and the notion with it to record. Instead of multiple little posts, here is much [...]

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