How a gas worker without a telescope search and discovers four new exoplanets

I love this true story because it's such an astronomical example for the case for Open Data. 

Full story on Gizmodo

News on Slashdot

I haven't look at the datasets and search process but I suspect it could be possible to develop "serious games" feeding on these huge databases to accelerate findings and involve people who are not necessarily knowledgeable in the field.

Blog resolution 2011

I'm not a natural writer, always thinking in an wild hyperlinked fashion and having a hard time writing in a constrained linear form. That said I believe the exercise could be useful. This will be a low traffic blog aiming at one post per month (maybe per week). The background and aim of the blog is described in the about page.

Other blogs/mircoblogs attempts:

• "Snippets Log" (Snippets of comments, opinions, definitions that i stumbled on while surfing and that i find interesting or want to keep a trace of).

• 'Memo pad' : tech stuff (IT howto or updates on projects i'm working on)
  
• Pro'Am (r)evolution (not updated anymore and merging the theme with this blog)

You can also find me on Twitter.

Feel free to comment or to improve my English (I'm French).