And it’s videoed, but the sound is poor (read: non-existant). Thanks for your comments, anyway. Most kind.

Brilliant. I need one of these automatic widgets on my own blog.

RPG – very nice talk, well worth the 11 minutes or so of my morning. I’m thinking that I need to start incorporating more of my own photos in my talks, seeing how you’ve done it here. Nice demonstration of the “less is more” approach to text on your slides, too.

That network analysis that you refer to is a very cool idea (the caveats you point out notwithstanding). I’d not even dreamed of aggregating all of that network/IP address information and using it to mine out patterns of user activity. I guess people in the know do this kind of thing all the time, but using it as one basis for “importance” of a particular publication is an interesting idea.

Your comments regarding transparency of algorithms (e.g. ISI) are interesting too – I’m somewhat familiar (as are you I guess) with the “interestingness” measure used by Flickr… which is also of course completely opaque (a bit like Google PageRank now that I think of it). The expectation is that all of these things hand us the information that’s most relevant (“Techno Idiots”, anyone?) and this expectation is clearly wrong – some of the time w.r.t. Google, and maybe all of the time for Flickr (I’ll give ISI the benefit of the doubt and put them somewhere in the middle).

I’d like to see a video of the Q&A and discussion, if such a thing exists. Can you post it here, or in a follow-on blog post?

R.