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I am a freelance science writer based in Cambridge, England, I trained as a chemist and am a chartered member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, I write for several magazines and websites on science, technology and medicine, covering everything from astronomy to zoology, by way of biomedicine, nanotechnology and browser wars.
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- September 12, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,777 views
Networking Your Washing Machine
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Your washing machine or air-conditioning unit could one day be networked in a giant global grid and used to help efforts such as the SETI@Home project, Folding@Home, the now ended Lifesaver project, or even LHC@Home.
Well…not quite, but a simple system for…... Read more »
Takehiko Demiya, Tomoki Yoshihisa and Masanori Kanazawa. (2008) Compact grid: a grid computing system using low resource compact computers. Int. J. Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 1(2), 231-247.
- November 17, 2008
- 03:30 AM
- 1,713 views
Digital Piracy Management
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
A new approach to preventing digital piracy of music and video content that sidesteps the need for the privacy compromise associated with DRM (digital rights management) is reported in the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.
Thierry Rayna of the Internet…... Read more »
Thierry Rayna, & Ludmila Striukova. (2008) Privacy or piracy, why choose? Two solutions to the issues of digital rights management and the protection of personal information. Int. J. Intellectual Property Management, 2(3), 240-252. DOI: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action
- December 8, 2008
- 05:32 AM
- 1,697 views
Search Engine Marketing for Non-profits
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
We hear a lot about search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing/management (SEM), white hats, gray hats, and black hats for those hoping to exploit the internet to boost their bank balance, which is fair enough. But, there are organizations…... Read more »
Dave McMahon, & Charla Griffy-Brown. (2009) Developing an effective and affordable search engine marketing strategy for nonprofits. Int. J. Internet Marketing and Advertising, 5(1/2), 113-130.
- December 16, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,637 views
Addicting Games
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Tech writer and web designer Wayne Smallman has been discussing whether video games are good or bad for kids and has kicked up something of a magnetic traffic storm into the bargain. Earlier this year, Allan Reiss and colleagues at…... Read more »
W Boot, A Kramer, D Simons, M Fabiani, & G Gratton. (2008) The effects of video game playing on attention, memory, and executive control. Acta Psychologica, 129(3), 387-398. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.09.005
- November 18, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,626 views
Avatars, Identity, and Walkies
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
In the early days of the web, the phrase “No one knows you are a dog on the Internet” became popular, as members of virtual worlds hid behind virtual masks. Today, the advent of web 2.0 and the emergence of…... Read more »
Angela Adrian. (2008) Avatars: a right to privacy or a right to publicity?. Int. J. Intellectual Property Management, 2(3), 253-260. DOI: http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action
- October 10, 2008
- 09:45 AM
- 1,591 views
Privacy Concerns Men and Women
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Today, a portable hard-disk with personal data on 100,000 members of the British Armed Forces was mislaid or stolen (they don’t yet know) from government contractor EDS. The same company lost data on prison staff in September, previously records of…... Read more »
Silvana Faja, & Silvana Trimi. (2008) Privacy concerns in e-commerce: an empirical investigation of gender differences. International Journal of Electronic Business, 6(4), 386-404. DOI: http://www.inderscience.com/offer.php?id
- October 17, 2008
- 05:25 AM
- 1,531 views
Word Domination
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
If you are reading the original English version, albeit with a quasi-transatlantic twang, then you probably think of English as being the lingua franca of global communications. After all, in almost every sphere of human endeavor, the world over, it seems…... Read more »
Carol S. Saunders, & Madelyn Flammia. (2008) A subtle war of words on the internet. International Journal of Electronic Business, 6(4), 342. DOI: 10.1504/IJEB.2008.020673
- October 29, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,520 views
Revolutionary Solids
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
History teachers can always turn to the significant figures and battles to enliven their lessons, biology education has the enormously diverse range of species to point to, and even physics can pull in metaphors and anecdotes for the more esoteric aspects, try teaching gravity without mentioning Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But, teachers [...]... Read more »
Annunziata Cascone, Gerardo Durazzo, & Valentina Stile. (2008) Solids by revolution: materialising an idea. International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 4(2/3), 140. DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2008.020651
- January 19, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,472 views
Don’t Waste Your Time on Social Media
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Social media was the buzzphrase of 2008, it was “web 2.0″ before that, but that sounded way too geeky to catch on with most users and is soooo mid-noughties. So, is social media dead and buried and the semantic web just about to reach its peak? Probably not quite yet.
What do we mean by social [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Nikos Manouselis, & Constantina Costopoulou. (2008) marService: multiattribute utility recommendation for e-markets. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 33(2/3), 176. DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2008.021940
- November 3, 2008
- 07:00 AM
- 1,457 views
Science of Spam
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Who hasn’t received a spam email with some kind of clause laying claim to compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003? They usually say something about the message being anything but spam. But, it quickly becomes obvious, if you actually waste the time to read the content, that it is a generic marketing message for [...]... Read more »
Petur O. Jonsson. (2009) The economics of spam and the context and aftermath of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, 2(1), 40-52.
- March 10, 2009
- 09:00 AM
- 1,447 views
SIMONE takes control of corporate email
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Employees are spending increasing amounts of time handling email, time that may detract from their primary role within an organization. As such, business researchers have repeatedly raised concerns about email overload, constant interruptions, technology addiction, attention deficiency and productivity loss. And that doesn’t take into account social media and social bookmarking sites like twitter, facebook, [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Ashish Gupta, & Ramesh Sharda. (2008) SIMONE: A Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments. Int. J. Simulation and Process Modelling, 4(3/4), 237-247.
- January 6, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,440 views
Tracking Online Trails
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
No one likes cookies, we all want to keep our privacy sacred, and we certainly hate to be tracked every virtual movement. But, there are times when tracking online trails can be to the public good - when traceability is…Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Man Qi, Denis Edgar-Nevill, Yongquan Wang, & Rongsheng Xu. (2008) Tracking online trails. Int. J. Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 1(4), 353-361.
- September 22, 2008
- 12:00 AM
- 1,425 views
Autumn Leaves
by David Bradley in Sciencebase Science Blog
why do leaves turn red in the fall? It's all down to chemistry. Red pigments known as anthocyanins form in leaves from many plant and tree species at the same time as the green photosynthetic apparatus is dismantled by the plant. New research in PNAS this week explains abscission - the how and when of leaf fall.... Read more »
S. K. Cho, C. T. Larue, D. Chevalier, H. Wang, T.-L. Jinn, S. Zhang, & J. C. Walker. (2008) Regulation of floral organ abscission in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805539105
- December 9, 2008
- 12:00 PM
- 1,425 views
NoScript Online Wine Shopping
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
I drink a lot of wine…not too much, I’m not quite a connoisseur, but not plain sloshed either (Fawlty Towers circa 1975). I’m also hoping that polyphenolic antioxidants are helping with the excess saturated fat in my diet too.
Anyway, I had…... Read more »
Michael J. Sheridan, Joseph Cazier, & Douglas May. (2009) Leisure, wine and the internet: exploring the factors that impact the purchase of wine online. Int. J. Electronic Marketing and Retailing, 2(3), 284-297.
- August 21, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,422 views
Feed Marketing a Non-starter
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Having waxed lyrical on repeated occasions about RSS newsfeeds and Feedburner feedcounts, I thought it was time I did some more formal study into the subject. However, I came across an intriguing research paper in the International Journal of Technology…... Read more »
Ingi Edvardsson, & Nik J Whitehead. (2008) RSS as a new international e-marketing opportunity. International Journal of Technology Marketing, 3(3), 293. DOI: 10.1504/IJTMKT.2008.019926
- September 19, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,411 views
Revisiting Chernobyl
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Chernobyl. The very name strikes fear into the hearts of those who hate everything about the nuclear industry. It conjures up images of an archaic, burning industrial site spewing out lethal fumes, of farm animals dying of radiation poisoning in their thousands and contaminated meat, of ecosystems devastated, and of people with radiation sickness and [...]... Read more »
Young Woo Jin, Meeseon Jeong, Kieun Moon, Kwang Hee Yang, Byung Il Lee, Hun Baek, Sang Gu Lee, & Chong Soon Kim. (2008) Health effects 20 years after the Chernobyl accident. International Journal of Low Radiation, 5(3), 263. DOI: 10.1504/IJLR.2008.020255
- November 17, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,404 views
Virtual Rehabilitation
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
I recently wrote about how social media might help scientists do their work, so a paper in IJWBS on how those on the receiving end of medical science - patients and healthcare practitioners - might benefit from web 2.0 caught my eye.
IT specialist and disability consultant Maire Heikkinen of University of Tampere, Finland, has focused [...]... Read more »
Maire Heikkinen. (2009) Power and support from the net: usability and sociability on an internet-based rehabilitation course for people with multiple sclerosis. IInt. J. Web Based Communities, 5(1), 83-104.
- March 9, 2009
- 09:01 AM
- 1,399 views
Meta Tags and Web 3.0
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
In 2008, Google spidered its trillionth web page. That sounds impressive, but as LISNews, the Librarian And Information Science News, recently pointed out that figure represents but a tiny fraction of the information on the web. How so, you ask? Well, think of all those ecommerce databases, library catalogs, transport system fares and timetables… There [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Badawia M. Albassuny. (2008) Automatic metadata generation applications: a survey study . Int. J. Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 3(4), 260-282.
- April 9, 2009
- 08:00 AM
- 1,384 views
Private Texts Not So Confidential
by David Bradley in Sciencetext
Should your boss be allowed to read your text messages, your emails, your tweets? The answer to that question is not, legally speaking, quite so clear cut as you might hope. After all, if you’re texting (SMS) or tweeting on company time, using a company computer or cell phone, then you might be breaking your [...]Post from: David Bradley's Sciencetext Tips and Tricks
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Gregory C. Mosier. (2009) Text messages: privacy in employee communications in the USA. Int. J. Private Law, 2(3), 260-266.
- September 26, 2008
- 08:00 AM
- 1,350 views
Disastrous Rumours
by sciencebase in Sciencebase Science Blog
Gossip and rumours, they are the life force of cultural interaction. Just ask Guy Kawasaki, whose Truemors.com website took off last year, the hundreds of hacks who peddle the minutiae of celebrity lifestyles complete with the Photoshopped products of the paparazzi, or Perez Hilton. But, there is a serious side to rumours. In the midst [...]... Read more »
Judith Molka Danielsen, & Thomas Beke. (2008) Rumours interplay in disaster management. International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, 9(4), 334. DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2008.020413
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