Following on from my post about Notebook Sharing, here’s another blog post wrestling with the consequences of changing from paper to electronic lab notebooks. Interestingly, the prospect of using an Apple iPad as an ELN gets some consideration.  I suspect that we’re going to hear a lot more about iPads in due course.

An interesting post on Simon Coles’ ELN Blog paints a dark picture of the RFP process. If we’re brutally honest, then the post doesn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know, but weren’t prepared to admit. There seem to be two underlying themes around the points raised; firstly, to what extent are [...]

The subject of raw data has crept into the vocabulary of the media recently with alleged wrong doings amongst scientists in connection with data related to climate change.  The matter has unsurprisingly been dubbed ‘climategate’ and is currently chalking up over 28,000,000 hits on Google.  The underlying issues, if they are real, are political, and [...]

I recently saw a documentary on British TV about the low cost airline RyanAir. The CEO claimed excellent customer service because they are able to deliver the cheapest flights in Europe (cost), best punctuality (time), and the most modern fleet of aircraft (quality). However, their customers do not necessarily agree with the assertion [...]

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