The program of the Microsoft/RENCI conference is now up. They would not let me give a talk, but I'll have to make a poster (using the darned MS Power Point, I guess #$%^&*) which makes me pretty mad. Heck, there is some unknown talking about science blogs instead of me. Who made this decision?
Compared to the organizers of every other meeting this year, from SciFoo, to ConvergeSouth, to ASIS&T, to the panel at Harvard (and yes, our own Science Blogging Conference), these guys are positively Palaeolitic in their attitude - from the haughtily-official looking site, to the very idea of submitting 'abstracts' (not to mention that this is done via a cumbersome submission form), it appears they barely scratched Web 1.0, yet they want to discuss Web 2.0.
Perhaps I should withdraw my poster and just go and schmooze with the likes of Timo Hannay and Jean Claude-Bradley instead, and try to actually teach some people there about Science 2.0 in the hallways.
Or perhaps I am just in a really bad mood today....and should be back to my usual sunny self by tomorrow.
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Speaking of posters and talking in the hall and such, would you like to present at our Science Blogging SciFoo Lives On session on October 1, 2007 at noon ET?
We'll be asking the other science bloggers at SciFoo as well but you're the first on the list:)
The event is on Second Life and is open to everyone.
For info about past sessions see the SFLO wiki
http://scifooliveson.wikispaces.com
Posted by: Jean-Claude Bradley | September 19, 2007 9:33 AM
"using the darned MS Power Point, I guess #$%^&*"
NO! Use Adobe InDesign.
Posted by: PhysioProf | September 21, 2007 6:46 PM