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ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants

Continuing with the series (I get more and more feedback that people love this) introducing, a few at a time, the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what. Anil Dash is a pioneer blogger (and of course twitterer) and one of the founders of Six Apart, the company that built blogging platforms including MoveableType (which is used by Scienceblogs.com) and Typepad. Just yesterday, he made an official announcement that he will be leading Expert Labs (also on Twitter) which is a new project (largely run/funded by AAAS) to…

Social Networks, danah boyd, and Class, Redux

Apophenia, danah boyd's blog is one of the first blogs I ever read and have been reading more-or-less continuously over the past 3-4 years (since she took a class on framing with George Lakoff and blogged about it). She is probably the most thoughtful analyst of online behavior. There are thousands who can write about technology and "killer apps", but she understand better than anyone the users' point of view: what works and what not and why. Her ethnographic/sociological/anthropological/psychological approach to the study of the Web is, to me, much more insightful than any technology…

Science Online 2011: some initial reactions

Trying to describe the experience of Science Online to someone who has never been is like trying to explain the taste of a pineapple. You can get vague details across - tangy, sweet, juicy - but the full experience can never be imparted verbally. I'm not even going to try to explain what it was like to be at this year's conference, but I do have some thoughts that have arisen out of four days of fantastic dialogue with new and old friends and, of course, excessive sleep deprivation. I found there was a fascinating negative correlation between the amount of time the moderators spent talking…

Comments of the Week #94: from nuclear bombs to the changing culture of astronomy

“Observing quasars is like observing the exhaust fumes of a car from a great distance and then trying to figure out what is going on under the hood.” -Carole Mundell Enjoying what we're putting out at Starts With A Bang? There was a whole lot that we saw this past week, including a few tour-de-force pieces on some breaking news, including: How can we know if North Korea is testing nuclear bombs? (for Ask Ethan), The early Universe's most massive galaxy cluster revealed (for Mostly Mute Monday), Should you play Powerball? Science solves the mystery, The Universe’s Dark Ages May Hold The…

Mercola---still lying after all these years

It's no secret that I have no respect for Joe Mercola. Every time I read one of his promotional emails or make a visit to his website, I see more fantastic claims. Usually, I don't see blatant lies...until now... This guy likes to claim that he's in the woo-peddling business to help people...it's not about profit. This is clearly untrue. But other than his dissembling about his motives, I've never really checked his site for lies in particular...just silly, illogical falsehoods. Today I got an email from Joe: Why I Believe You Should Take Action NOW to Help Remove Potential Toxins from…

Eat chicken? Oxfam presses Tyson, Pilgrim’s, others to improve conditions for poultry workers

The anti-poverty group Oxfam America wants consumers to help poultry workers. Oxfam is calling on consumers to use their purchasing power to demand better working conditions for the 250,000 individuals who work in US poultry processing plants. The target of their demands? The four firms that control about 60 percent of the poultry market: Tyson, Pilgrim’s, Perdue, and Sanderson Farms. “Consumers do have power,” explains Minor Sinclair, Director of Oxfam America’s US Program. Consumers have “…pushed through changes in antibiotic policies within the poultry industry. They’ve pushed through…

If Smallpox could talk - not really.

A little late on this one, but the scienceblog question of the week (of last week), reads: "Is every species of living thing on the planet equally deserving of protection?..." If you take the question at face falue - that is in an empirical sense - then the answer is of course not. You could, I suppose, say it would be nice to at least give everything a fighting chance, especially so far as how our own human ecological footprint comes into play. But the fact of the matter is that even if we embarked on a "preservation of all kick," the reality would be that it would be done under a human…

Making my voice heard and getting the funds I need

I've blogged before about my difficulties in getting adequate and unrestricted start-up funds from my university. Where we left the story, I'd been awarded about 2/3 the start-up funds I needed, with an oral promise that I would be "first in line" for money when I arrived. I also had to spend every cent of my start-up funds before I ever arrived on campus, leaving me literally penniless as I tried to get my lab set-up. The net result of all this is that I bought a big fancy piece of equipment (BFPE) and didn't have enough to buy the doojab to actually make the equipment run. As soon as I…

Impeachment Update

The Blogosphere has had a bit of a twitter over the issue of the impeachment of President Bush.  The most assertive progressive href="http://alterx.blogspot.com/2006/11/nancy-its-your-duty-to-impeach-bush.html"> are upset that the issue is " href="http://www.democrats.com/Why-Conyers-Changed-Tune-On-Impeachment">off the table," in the words of Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers.  Conservatives are href="http://slagblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/yes-mama-sheehan-back-in-saddle.html">skeptical, imagining that the Democratic leadership is just as vicious as the Republicans leadership.  …

How much does a USB stick cost these days?

And what can you really do with them? I am not an expert on consumer technology. I stay a few miles behind the cutting edge where I can pick up the orts at a discount, and most stuff works. Last time I checked, newer (faster, bigger, whatever-er) versions of technology cost more per unit (of speed, size, whatever) than would be predicted by examination of price/unit relationships for lower (and thus older) values. Some have incorrectly claimed this to be a logarithmic relationship, but clearly it is more often a linear relationship between cost and amount up to some point, then the prices…

A Stunning Success for Faith-Based Anti-Nuclear Proliferation Efforts

Buckling under to conservative pressure to find the non-existent evidence that Saddam Hussein had, in fact, been building weapons of mass destruction, about a year ago, the Bush Administration placed online documents from the Saddam Hussein era that provided technical information on building various nuclear devices. Quoth the Grey Lady: The campaign for the online archive was mounted by conservative publications and politicians, who said that the nation's spy agencies had failed adequately to analyze the 48,000 boxes of documents seized since the March 2003 invasion. With the public…

Around the Web: University of Virginia controversy

This collection of posts is only the tip of the iceberg of reaction to the ongoing controversy at the University of Virginia. For more, see the first item in the list for a digital archive. I consider this particular crisis a very interesting one to follow, one with implications for all universities and similar in scope and importance as the McMaster and Harvard Libraries controversies were for libraries. I guess I'll have to come up with one of these posts for the Harvard reorganization too. The current crisis at the Library and Archives Canada seems to have larger implications as well,…

Citizen Science projects on-line

Next Saturday afternoon, at ScienceOnline2010, the science goddess, the chemspider, and I will be presenting a workshop on getting students involved in citizen science. In preparation, I'm compiling a set of links to projects that involve students in citizen science. If you know of any good citizen science efforts, please share them in the comments. Here we go! Before I start listing links, I am limiting this list to projects that allow both students and citizen scientists to participate. I know of plenty of student projects, where students can isolate phage and annotate their genomes or…

Know Privacy Report: Google Web Bugs on 88% of Websites

I'm very proud of the Know Privacy team, a group of three students who performed a broad analysis of online privacy issues for their master's project at UC Berkeley's School of Information. The study is featured today on the New York Times Bits blog. Several findings are notable: They found: "From our analysis, it is apparent that Google is the dominant player in the tracking market. Among the top 100 websites this project focused on, Google Analytics appeared on 81 of them. When combined with the other trackers it operates, such as DoubleClick, Google can track 92 of the top 100 websites.…

Best Science Books 2009: The Globe 100

One of the most interesting lists every year is The Globe and Mail's Globe 100, and this year is no exception. There's relevant stuff all over the spectrum, from biography to history to graphic novels to popular science to the environment. In the print version, the categories are pretty basic: Canadian fiction, international fiction, poetry, non-fiction, graphica. Online, the categories are, well, a little more granular, and we'll get to that train wreck after the list. Here goes: Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna Tar…

The Fine Art of Reblogitation and Going Ape for Miss USA

Reblogitation (pronounced with a "j" sound for the "g", of course): the blogospheric phenomenon of reposting, and re-reposting, and re-re-reposting the information from the "apparent first" or "most snarky" report (or blog post) about a news item. Mother-post: the "apparent first" or "most snarky" report of an item, that then provides "the facts" for most of the other stories about that item online (even those that don't reference or link to the mother-post). The flurry of recent news about the question "Should evolution be taught in public schools?" that was asked of the recent crop of MIss…

"Second Life" becomes more like the first one

If you haven't heard of the internet phenomenon Second Life, you probably will soon. It's an online world where players create virtual representations of themselves, or rather, themselves as they'd like to be. Then they go about "life" in the way they would if the tedious flaws of everyday life -- gravity, jobs, cellulite, and so on -- didn't exist. It's not that people don't work in the world of Second Life. In fact, people have made thousands of real-world dollars by selling items they created in Second Life. Now Second Life is about to get an upgrade. Currently, to "talk" to others in the…

Dr. Google and Mr. Jim

What would we do without the Internet? It's become so necessary, so pervasive, so utterly all-enveloping that it's hard to imagine a world without it. Given how much it pervades everything these days, it's easy to forget that it wasn't that long ago that the Internet was primarily the domain of universities and large research groups. Indeed, the Internet hasn't really been widely and easily available to the average citizen for very long at all. Go back 20 years, and most people didn't have it. For example, Netscape Navigator, the popular browser that made the Internet accessible, wasn't…

It's Impeachment Time!

This poll is not scientific, but it's still quite interesting, especially when one realizes that, according to any poll results from the past 18 months, Bush's approval rating are astonishingly low, particularly for a second-term war-time prez. [Added 1945 in response to blog SiBling, James] Since blog SiBling, James, is being cranky, I will also cite some information from the linked MSNBC explanation as to why this poll is not scientific. First, the linked document points out that; While a poll of 100 people will be more accurate than a poll of 10, studies have shown that accuracy…

Expect, rather than wish for, the chance to be heard

One last political post for a little while at least. We posted almost two weeks ago a note of thanks to the NC Democratic senate candidate, Jim Neal. The progressive candidate and friend of the blogging community (and blogger himself) lost to Kay Hagan, who will now face Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) in the November election. I missed Jim's response to us in a long thread at BlueNC: it's never too late for you and science/medicine bloggers to make an impact. Get to know Senator Hagan and other candidates. Inform them about what you are doing and your POV. You have a voice. Use it. Expect,…

Dawson Shootings, Portrait of the Deranged

One 18 year old girl is dead. Eight others are in serious condition. It could have been worse, but I think that the Montreal Police learned from the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre that you should try to confront and disable anyone who walks into a public area and intends to commit mass murder. This had to take place at Dawson, of all places. I have some of my best memories there. For those of you not familiar with education in Quebec, after high school, all students are required to go to CEGEP (or college) for two years before entering university. As we have one year less of both high…

Getting It Right: WikiPathways

Deciding on the right license for an online community can be a touchy process. Sometimes the community is focused on the organizing principles learned from software. Copyleft has been powerful in growing free software, and is regularly insisted on by online communities that build data, or community science content - not because it makes legal or technical sense for data or community science content, but because it's a security blanket known well from software. The problem is that in a lot of cases, share-alike breaks the interoperability of data and content, in a way that it doesn't in…

Carrboro Citizen - a model for the newspaper of the future

The future of newspapers is bleak, but there are three saving strategies: 1) hyperlocal papers will beat the big city, state, national and international papers, 2) telling the truth instead of false equivalence will foster reader loyalty, and 3) the print-to-web mode of thinking will be replaced by web-to-print, community-driven model. Carrboro Citizen is an examplar of all three strategies. If you know that Carrboro is tiny, you already see how hyperlocal it is. If you have read it for a while, you know that they do not do the dreaded he-said-she-said tired, old schtick - they tell is at it…

Tornado Rips the Hell out of Manhattan

tags: tornado, Manhattan Kansas, weather "Hello? Dad? Can I borrow your car?" Image: Dave Rintoul, 12 June 2008 [larger view]. [Includes slideshow] After I returned from Manhattan, Kansas, I thought of it as a wonderful, magical place where I would always be able to return, to see birds and photograph lots of native wildlife, to find a warm and safe place with my good friends, Dave and Elizabeth. (I am sure all of you know Dave quite well, since his gorgeous photographs are often featured as the "Image of the Day" on this site.) But while I was preoccupied with my imaginings, I was…

An Important Announcement Revealing That Yes, I am an Optimist

Whilst reading some of my colleagues' blogs, I ran across this announcement and realized that it's been ages since I first mention that I registered for the Science Online London conference a long time ago -- on the very first day that I could do so, in fact. This conference focuses on using the internet -- blogosphere as well as podcasts, soundfiles, photography, and streaming video -- as a public outreach and educational tool for and in support of science. This important conference is scheduled for 22 August 2009 in London at the celebrated Royal Institution of Great Britain, where it was…

Propaganda 2.0: Analysis of Iraqi Insurgent Media

Last week, analysts at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty released a 70 page analysis of the strategies, tactics, and messages of the Sunni insurgent propaganda campaign. It's the most interesting thing I've read in some time. Check out the full report, summary below, and listen above to an interview with one of the authors on NPR's On the Media. The book-length report, "Iraqi Insurgent Media: The War Of Images And Ideas" by RFE/RL regional analysts Daniel Kimmage and Kathleen Ridolfo, provides an in-depth analysis of the media efforts of Sunni insurgents, who are responsible for the…

Green Pencils, Sleeping Birds, and Aging Possums

Ugh. Several days, pretty much day and night, going over the copy-edited Microcosm manuscript with a green pencil. I haven't had any time to write any original blog posts--or even reply to most of my email. But I can at least point you to three articles of mine that went online while I was buried deep in dangling participles. Looking at them now, I see a common theme: comparison. 1. The Internet and E. coli. Some of the most intriguing papers I've read about E. coli while researching Microcosm came from an engineer. John Doyle is a control theory expert at CalTech who has spent lots of time…

Day 4 -- Science and the rest of the world

Peter Krause, the ever-friendly and patient press officer for ESOF, says the best thing about the organization is that it began ten years ago as a grass-roots idea: scientists who wondered why Europe had no equivalent of the AAAS and decided to create one. Since then, it has grown in all directions, but it still retains the flavor of scientists creating spaces for scientific exchange on  a pan-academic level. That feeling was certainly present yesterday evening, at a session on science communication. The speakers were three communicators in very different fields. The first, Angel Rodriguez…

Thinking about ScienceOnline09 and allies

As I've mentioned, I'm co-organizing a session on gender and science blogging, with a particular focus on how we can be allies, as well as on the intersection of gender, race and class in blogging. The official conversation has been a little slow, but while I've been distracted, others have been writing interesting posts, with even more interesting comment threads and responses. I'm hoping bringing it up again will keep the conversation going and might prompt ideas for the ScienceOnline session. In my last post, ecogeofemme askedhow ally was defined in this context. On one hand, as Lab…

IT plumbing is not sexy...which is a problem

Anyone who has worked in IT knows about some shady practices here and there...and when it comes to databases many companies don't engage in much oversight. I suspect part of the problem is that the higher managers are distanced from the technological day-to-day and just assume that the nerds on the ground are taking care of things. I bring this up because today I had to resolve a problem with my cell phone provider. Apparently all my online administrative information was deleted when Sprint merged its databases with Nextel. This is a rather large corporation; you can imagine the sort of…

Around the Web: The Great Age of Librarians, Amazon Will Destroy You, Apps vs The Open Web and more

The Great Age of Librarians Amazon Will Destroy You Confessions of a Publisher: "We're in Amazon's Sights and They're Going to Kill Us" Mobile Sites vs. Apps: The Coming Strategy Shift Instructional Designers Wanted: No Experience Necessary Libraries and the Commodification of Culture Innovating the Library Way About the Emerging Battles Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives fallacies of a market approach to public higher ed The perils and pleasures of online gaming for married life Scienceography: the study of how science is written An Experiment in Teaching Writing: A Look…

Around the Web: What ownership means for digital media, The power of introverts and more

What 'Ownership' Means for Digital Media (Hint: Not Much) The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance An Introvert's Guide to Networking Giving introverts permission to be themselves Consensus Decision-Making and its Possibilities in Libraries Disruption and Implications Support good science writing - pay for it Online tools are 'distraction' for science You Probably Don't Have a Social Media Expert From Stacks to the Web: the Transformation of Academic Library Collecting Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries Our College Education System Serves Its…

Around the Web: Adrift? Not!, Preparing journal submissions, Asking the right IL questions and more

Academically on Course Journal Submissions Asking the right questions Inger Mewburn - Is There a New Digital Divide Brewing? The case for libraries' use of social media: a how-to Social Media - Oversold and Undervalued 15 Case Studies to Get Your Library Director On Board With Social Media (Moral) Hazards of Scanning for Plagiarists: Evidence from Shoplifting Eleven Deadly Sins Of Online Promotion For Writers Why IT pros should be more like librarians Hacking the Academy Some Thoughts on the Hacking the Academy Process and Model How to Leverage your workforce: librarians and the art of the…

Around the Web: The best citizen science games, The urgency for change in education and more

Earn a Nobel Prize in your Lunch-Break! The Best "Citizen Science" Games Reviewed! Digital Technology Innovation in Scholarly Communication and University Engagement On Twitter and Machiavellian Intelligence Who Needs a Netbook? Tech Tools for Scholars - The Sequel From the Archives: On Blogging Letter Re Software and Scientific Publications - Nature The urgency for change In Defense of Science Blogs (yes again) Want to succeed in online content? Get small, be open, go free Science Dogme: a manifesto for science, technology and medicine exhibitions and here for the article. Citation tools…

ScienceOnline09 - how can you help?

As the conference has grown from one to almost three days, and already more then 90 people have registered, we need your help - so offer to volunteer. What can you do? * Spread the word: use online and offline tools to tell your friends about the conference * Ask your company/organization to become a sponsor * Donate a small amount of money * Help us develop the Program and offer to lead a session * Volunteer to collect and pack swag * Volunteer to drive the out-of-town guests during the conference * Volunteer to spend some time at the desk at the entrance,…

Dr. Exotica

Tending to recent immigrants and other travelers, Carlos Franco-Paredes diagnoses diseases that few other physicians in North America have ever seen: Q: What's the most important diagnostic tool you use? A: The Internet. We rely on it heavily, probably more than other specialists do. Online, we access recent medical journals from all over the world, including PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and the Journal of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries. They have really good articles written by people on the local level. But beyond that, we use the Internet to keep up on what's happening in…

Talking Sanitation on Skeptically Speaking

I was delighted to be a guest on the Skeptically Speaking radio show/ podcast recently - I spoke with host Desiree Schell about why toilets (and other related forms of sanitation) are so great. In fact, the whole episode is dedicated to the topic of "Sewer Science," and also features University of York's Alistair Boxall discussing pharmaceutical contaminants. The previous episode focuses on municipal water systems and water fluoridation, and there are many other fascinating health-related episodes on the site available for downloading or online listening. My past posts on sanitation in the…

Fornvännen's Summer Issue On-Line

Fornvännen 2015:2 is now on-line on Open Access. A reminder: the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters who publish the journal decided on a six-month delay in order to protect the viability of the journal's paper version. Evert Baudou & Ingmar Jansson on Leo Klejn’s opinions of Mats Malmer’s work. Legends talking about legend talking about legend. Per Nilsson & Anna Sörman on a new Bronze Age metalworking find from Östergötland. Ole Stilborg & Claes Pettersson on the poor quality of Early Modern fortifications at Jönköping. Göran Tagesson & Annika Jeppson on Early Modern tiled…

A peek into creationist pathology

The Atheist Experience has Kent Hovind's phone calls from jail online. Hovind is such a pretentious fraud; he compares himself to George Washington and the IRS to the Mafia and Hitler's minions, and insists through it all that he's completely innocent. He also makes the claim that the people persecuting him will get their comeuppance on Judgement Day—that belief must be such a consolation to many petty crooks. I did feel a little sympathy for his wife, who does express some worry and remorse…and good ol' Kent just barrels over her concerns and tries to tell her what the law is. That tactic…

Oreskes on Global Warming Denialism

I was going to blog this later today, but now I see Tim over at Deltoid has beaten me to it, so I’ll post this without much comment. (Shakes fist in impotent fury at those damned Australians!) Like Tim, I received a heads-up from John Mashey regarding an online talk by Naomi Oreskes titled "The American Denial of Global Warming." It’s an hour long presentation that discusses the "history of the global warming disinformation campaign, led by corporate-funded policy operatives and ideologically-driven scientists, who employed the ’tobacco strategy’ to manipulate public opinion to create an…

ScienceBlogs Moving Up in the World!

Technorati, an online blog rating system, has rated ScienceBlogs in the top 50 most popular blogs in the world! Woohoo! We're currently #33, and yes, we've even beaten out Cute Overload. Now, please could you make ScienceBlogs a "favorite" blog? Or, if you're feeling mighty generous, you could even favorite Retrospectacle! Go here to do it! Just type in a blog to search for it, and then favorite it. :) The word on high from SEED is this: in order to make ScienceBlogs truly the biggest conversation about science, we need to get the word out. Now, I'm usually not so shamelessly self-promoting…

Swinging Through The Tree of Life Tomorrow on NPR

A quick heads-up: I'll be talking about the tree of life tomorrow morning on NPR's Saturday Weekend Edition. The segment will be archived on their "Science Out of the Box" web page. We'll be talking about everything from animals to mushrooms to the unclassifiable viruses that graft the tree of life into a web. Update: 12/1 10 am: ...or maybe not. As far as I could tell over the breakfast din, the piece didn't run this morning. I'll let you know when and if it does. Update: 12/1 5:30 pm: The piece just ran. I don't think I made any major gaffes, but fact-check away. Here's where you can listen…

Caferati, Indian writers forum

Caferati is a place for aspiring writers to meet, share and collaborate with each other. It is of Indian origin and the members meet in many cities in India. They have a number of online resources (site, google groups). Geographical accidents such as birthplace and country of residence should not worry you if you want to dive in with them and splash about. The editors are doing fantastic work to promote young writers and keep them informed of various publishing opportunities. Our own Scifi story contest (submission closes in a few days, get your story in soon) has got a number of story…

UCSD-TV Interview with Naomi Oreskes

While I was out in San Diego last month, I got to do a lengthy interview with science historian Naomi Oreskes for UCSD-TV. UCSD-TV also filmed a keynote speech I did for Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties. The latter hasn't aired yet, but the former is now available online and you can watch it here using RealPlayer. I thought it was a really good, high level discussion. Oreskes had me respond to some criticisms from people like Daniel Sarewitz and the sociology of science crowd, as well as setting the issue of use and misuse of science in its full historical context. I…

Happy Caturday!

It's John Lynch's fault. And honestly, how can you be aware of the existence of a quiz that will determine which LOLcat you are without acting on that information to determine which LOLcat you are? Your Score : Lion Warning Cat 55% Affectionate, 54% Excitable, 31% Hungry You are the good Samaritan of the lolcat world. Protecting others from danger by shouting observations and guidance in cases of imminent threat, you believe in the well-being of everyone. To see all possible results, checka dis. Link: The Which Lolcat Are You? Test written by GumOtaku on OkCupid Free…

Life in Cold Blood

I didn't think it was going to air so early in the year, but apparently David Attenborough's latest program (and last in the "Life of..." series), Life in Cold Blood, is now airing in the UK. The Telegraph recently published an article about the joy of watching Attenborough's documentaries, and I was able to find one clip from the show already online. It features the Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki), a species that is critically endangered if not already extinct in the wild; Previously it had been said that this was going to be Attenborough's last project, but according to the…

Never Say Goodbye: Mexican Gray Wolf

tags: Mexican Gray Wolf, Canis lupus baileyi, Joel Sartore, National Geographic, image of the day Mexican Gray Wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) 320 (60 wild, 260 captive). Image: Joel Sartore/National Geographic [larger view]. The photographer writes; Still on shaky ground, the Mexican gray wolf, an endangered subspecies, is slowly increasing in number in Arizona and New Mexico thanks to captive breeding. Joel Sartore has shared some of his work on this blog before, so I am thrilled to tell you that National Geographic also appreciates his exemplary work. You can view more endangered animals…

MLK day and making the world a better place

Have you ever wanted to volunteer your talents and help with fun projects like these: * Refurbish computers for schools * Teach students how to use popular software or online services * Build a database for a nonprofit * Help out in your school's computer lab * Become an online mentor for students across the country In the spirit of MLK day, Serve.gov is calling on educators and tech people to participate in connecting schools and non-profits with tech needs to those who can help. You can use the widget below to find projects in your area. To quote Serve.gov, and Dr. King…

The Wonders of the Blogosphere

First - great news! Jennifer and Sean are getting married! They found each other online, blogging physics. Now, I know they are not the first people to find each other online and get married, but, to my knowledge, this is the highest-profile pair of bloggers to do so. And the first I know in the specifically science blogosphere. Is that true? Anyway, go say Hi to both of them. Congratulations! Second, after a very long hiatus (but I kept checking often, always hopeful), everyone's favourite artist of extinct mammals and other charismatic megafauna, Olduvai George is back to blogging…

The Third ConvergeSouth is in the Making

Hold the dates: October 19-20, 2007 for ConvergeSouth '07 at NC A&T State University. Things are brewing on two coasts to make sure that the 2007 ConvergeSouth is more special than ever. The Web site and blog will be online by March 1 (crossing fingers). We are seeking proposals for interactive discussions, DEMOs and how-to sessions in these areas: 1. New media and journalism 2. New creative online models and tools 3. Blogger how-to and blog improvement 4. Music performance (evenings) 5. Original video and film This year's ConvergeSouth features a new track: screening original video and…