Scirate Blog

Some of you have probably noticed that Scirate isn’t successfully downloading the papers every night (okay, so only Mick noticed, BTW.)  Anyway, I’ve been putting off fixing this in large part because I’ve been putting off fixing anything until after April 1st which is when the new scheme for labeling papers on the arXiv goes into use.  I’m pretty sure this will break scirate, so don’t be surprised if next week the site is down.

 Update: Doesn’t look like they’ve made the change yet.

Recommendations now span a certain time period from present.  Defaults are week, month (30 days), and year, but one can also choose any period of time.

A paper describing some research on digg.com.

I’ve added a simple recommender to scirate.com which recommends papers based on what you and others have voted for.  Right now this is just a very simple recommender.  In the future it will become more interesting!