Today, I am happy to present to you the first edition of the Curving Normality blog carnival. It is all about the quantitative social sciences, and aims at bringing together high quality blog posts about our lovely profession. With just a few weeks of preparation, I am very pleased with the number of submissions, and especially glad with their quality. Apparently, the quantitative social scientists are quite well represented in the blogosphere!
Wouldn’t it be nice to have all your scolarly articles stored where you can always reach them for future reference? I’m sure you have them nicely organized on your computer or even laptop, but we don’t want to carry that around all the time, right? Many Apple-users may have selected to use Bibdesk to automagically store their articles, but that does not (yet?) provide any solution of syncing these articles with any kind of device. Fortunately, as part of the MobileMe service, Apple now provides the opportunity to store your Bibdesk articles on the web, while retaining full-speed access to them when working on your own computer. Let’s see how to set it up …
Most academics will recognize the dilemma: should I this paper read from my computer screen, or print it and read it from paper? While both methods have their advantages, the combination of both `Skim’ and `Bibdesk’ for me seriously favor reading from my computer screen, for it allows me to make notes easy and digitally.
