A Blog Around The Clock

There are 104 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 81 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so(we'll cap at about 230). Starting today, I'll start introducing the participants here, pretty much daily. I'll start by getting the organizers out of the way first ;-)

Anton Zuiker is a blogger and a journalist, and currently works as manager of internal communications at Duke Medicine. He is the founder of BlogTogether and the driving force behind the local blogging community - no meetups, bloggercons or other events would have happened without him. Not to mention such initiatives as Storyblogging and Foodblogging. Read a nice recent story about Anton in the Raleigh News & Observer.

Brian Russell is an independent Social Software and Multimedia Consultant and the local podcast and multimedia guru. A couple of years ago, he organized a Podcastercon about which I wrote this post. With his wife Ruby and a few other local political activists, he also writes Orange Politics, the popular hub of the local political scene (if you don't show up there, you cannot win a local election, pretty much). Also, as far as I know, Brian and Ruby were the fist couple ever to use a blog to get their friends, in the comments, to suggest details about their wedding, from location and decorations, to the menu and her dress.

Paul Jones is a blogger, a poet, a Blooker Prize judge, the director (and founder?) of Ibiblio.org and a professor at UNC schools of Journalism, where he teaches classes on topics like Blogging, We the Media and Virtual Communities. And again, being online is 'in the family' - as his wife Sally Greene (Go Greene!) is a member of the City Council who blogs beautifully.

Oh, and I'll be there, too:

So, if you want to meet us in person, you need to register - it's free!