I should explain this.

This is just my dream for a good vacation - to rent a car and hit the Spanish-French riviera coast with a good company some time. So if you’re interested let me know and we will gather some time and do it, all we need is:

• good company
• time
• money

His project is called “The richest banner“.

Well, let’s see how far does it go. I have once studied an effect of social promotion of such projects with my own project. According to my observations, it is really important to give it a very powerful boost in the beginning otherwise the effect of avalanche will not last long. Promotion is very important and its timing is important too.

Yesterday I have passed an examination for 6th kyu which is a first step on aikido career ladder

 http://www.iq0.com/startup.html 

- a quote from Peer review policy page of one of the Elsevier computer science journals.

When the journals in Computer Science field as well as in other scientific fields find normal to review papers for 4 months it is obvious that the science is moving forward with the speed of a turtle.

The situation is following:

• you have to demonstrate an innovative research in your paper

• you have to submit the manuscript to one journal at a time, double submission is prohibited

• you have to wait for months until the editorial board decides if your paper is accepted or not. If it’s not accepted, you have to try with other journal and wait again.

Within this time nobody knows about your innovation, it is supposed that you don’t publish it anywhere etc. Years may pass. Researchers have to learn the turtle’s pace , they don’t have other choice. Science is moving slowly.

I think this is not right. There should be a possibility to publish drafts of the paper at some place for discussion and further collaborative development.  Some wiki-style interface could be implemented for that so that one author adds his innovative ideas and others can access them instantly and propose improvements.

- oy? 

Ukrainian working class celebrating St Patrick’s

photo by Minras, more in his blog:

http://minras.com/blog/ 

Would be gr8 if that’s possible. Otherwise we have to create that plugin

as famous Russian “vkontakte.ru” is nothing but Facebook, soon the same will start happening in Russian-speaking internet

social networks will eat 70% time of those who can’t stop themselves from using useless applications

as with any other thing, there are good and bad sides about social networks and it depends on how you use them

those guys will earn a lot who create these timewasting applications such as plugin allowing you to drop snowballs into your friends or application picking random phrases about Chuck Norris

the future is bright

let’s use the social networks, maintain our contacts, have fun, but do it considerably

thanks bro :))

P.S. I might start developing applications for social networks, it seems a good business. Will try to make useful ones though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usbNJMUZSwo