This is very cool: CrowdoMeter – consider signing in and participating

Just was catching up on PLoS Blogs which I do not read enough (some great stuff there).
And I discovered a really spectacular project described my Martin Fenner: CrowdoMeter – or trying to understand tweets about journal papers | Gobbledygook
Basically, this is an effort to crowdsource annotation of tweets about scientific papers. It is pretty simple – go to their website, sign in with a twitter ID, and start classifying. You can search for specific terms in the search bar, including “I’m feeling lucky” which will give you random tweets to classify. I first searched for evolution and four tweets came up. And then I played around with some other searches and I classified a few tweets. Not sure exactly where this is going but it is a cool idea and I will find out more at Science Online 2012 and will report back.
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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.

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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

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