The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in biodiversity, magazines on Apr 5th, 2008
Today’s monthly supplement of Hesari contained a pleasant surprise, an interview with the finnish biodiversity researcher Ilkka Hanski.
Nice insight into collecting 30000 beetles from Madagascar, and fascinating glimpses into the extinct fauna of that island (gorilla-sized prosimians, gigantic birds).
Incidentally, the link into the magazine doesn’t take surfers to requests for payment. […]
Posted in biodiversity, web on Mar 6th, 2008
Encyclopedia of Life seems to have kicked its startup troubles, at least the service seesm to be readily available. The first 25 demo pages on different organisms are interesting, but a negligible scratch on the surface of the whole.
Posted in biodiversity, web on Feb 27th, 2008
The encyclopedia of life unveiled today crumbled almost instantly.
Sadly, it’s far easier to add capacity to a slashdotted web service than to the multiple threatened ecosystems.