"social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects. (...) Flickr, for example, has turned photos into objects of sociality. On del.icio.us the objects are the URLs. EVDB, Upcoming.org, and evnt focus on events as objec
"The use of citation networks as a ranking methods is not free from problems, but it's, IMO, a vastly superior approach to scientific value discovery and would yield a much better service to the scientific community in general than the current peer review