1. The teacher was sitting one day beneath a cherry tree, regarding the birds as they ate its fruit. A student approached the teacher and spoke: “Master, I am afraid that if I make my research notes open, others will steal my good ideas.” Instead of answering the student, the master turned and cursed the [...]
Category Archives: openness
Use Zotero in a separate window
September 25, 2009 – 5:05 pm
As I’ve written before, I love the free citation manager Zotero. And the group and sharing features that just dropped as part of v2.0b7, while still a little buggy, are taking the awesomeness up another level. But one thing about Zotero has always really annoyed me: the horizantally-split screen. I never feel like I [...]
Zotero: the best open-source app you’ve never heard of.
May 17, 2008 – 5:46 am
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Zotero. But, speaking from experience, Zotero is one of the best open-source projects out there. What is it? In the project website’s words: Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do [...]
