In previous work, I proposed an Internet-based suite of applications that would significantly extend the functionality of Usenet newsgroups to allow collaborative knowledge capture and organization, collaborative scoring and filtering, and the partitioning of work through system support for user roles [Caron, 1998]. That paper presented a set of assumptions, design requirements, and a "wish lis...

The Death Café is part of the Death Positive movement, and as such, is uniquely positioned to bring the dialogue about death and dying to the public. Participants in a Death Café typically have two different perspectives. Some participants have not experienced death in their family and friends' circle and wish to converse with others about their beliefs on death and dying. Others are those who ...

One-sentence summary: This article presents an experience-based opinion on resources that would help author's editors working on scientific manuscripts perform their tasks more efficiently. Before I stumbled into a career in science editing, I had not fully appreciated how multi-layered the task of an author's editor can be; I had barely even known that such a profession existed. I began to enj...