NSF Slowly Catching Up to Web 2.0

June 1st, 2009

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With the proliferation of online votes on questions, blogs and video, the White House website is taking the lead in terms of a government online presence.  The National Science Foundation, which sponsored some of the critical research in the emergence of the Internet, has been slow to respond.  One step toward a stronger web presence is the development of Science Nation (H/T Framing Science), what promises to be a weekly online multimedia resource highlighting research.  The current ‘issue’ focuses on extremophile hunters.  While this may not seem cutting edge to some, it is an additional tool NSF can use to communicate news on the research it supports.  Perhaps for the next edition of Science and Engineering Indicators they can take their charts and graphs to the next level.

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