A Blog Around The Clock

My brain is fried. My flight home was horrifying - the pilot warned us before we even left the gate that the weather is nasty and that he ordered the stewardess to remain seated at least the first 30 minutes of the flight. Did the warning make the experience more or less frightening? I think it made it more so. Yes, the wind played with our airplane as if it was a toy, but knowing that the pilot thought it was nasty made it less comforting that he is confident himself in his abilities to keep us afloat. The scariest was the landing - we were kicked around throughout the descent until the moment of touch-down. The pilot had to fight it by going on with more power than he would normally use, so the touch-down was followed by very sharp breaking. Yuck. I was hoping to take a nap on the flight - yeah, right!

Anyway, while I am recovering (and trying to catch up with work), here are some files and links from the two conferences I presented at over the last week:

Let me just put everything in one place:

ConvergeSouth

The audio is here (missing the interesting Q&A unfortunately (you may have to crank up the volume on your computer to the max to hear it).

I used these links as a basis for the talk, though focusing primarily on PLoS, SciVee.com and Open Access.

CIT blog summary: Scientific publications, now with interactivity

And here is my summary.

ASIS&T:

You can watch a streaming Flash of the session (sans the last part of the Q&A) here.

My PPT can be downloaded here. Note in the recording how quickly I went through the slideshow about blogs and left the PLoS ONE slide up forever talking about the way OA publications will get integrated into other ways of doing, teaching and communicating science (including blogs) online - I certainly earned my pay for PLoS on Tuesday ;-)

The Rashomon of blog summaries:

me
me
Janet
Jean-Claude
Christina Pikas
Ken Varnum
Stephanie Willen Brown