SBC-NC'08
clock | January 20, 2008Here are a few pictures from the Friday night dinner at Town Hall Grill (under the fold):
clock | January 20, 2008On Friday afternoon, I went to one of the Lab Tours with several participants of the Science Blogging Conference to the NC Museum of Natural Science in downtown Raleigh, where we were treated to a royal tour of the fossil lab, the vaults and the exhibits:
clock | January 20, 2008After the Blogging101 session, I went to Radisson and had lunch with several science bloggers freshly arrived for the Science Blogging Conference, but I was too excited about meeting them, and to interested in my food to be a good photographer, so I only took a couple of shots of Dave and Elisabeth:
clock | January 20, 2008Here are just a couple of pictures from the Friday morning hands-on session on Blogging101 - the very beginning of the Science Blogging Conference:
clock | January 18, 2008I spent a lot of time today offline (and in the car), and I am exhausted, but here is a very brief summary of the day (I'll post the pictures and update the blog linkfest later - UPDATE: I just updated the Blog and Media Coverage page).
After the Blogging Skills Session, I drove a couple of participants back to the hotel, where we met up with several other bloggers for lunch. From there, we went to one of the afternoon Lab Tours - the one to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh, where the exhibit director Roy Campbell gave us a brilliant, informative and witty exclusive tour…
clock | January 18, 2008Sitting in the UNC Health Science Library computer lab. There's about 20 of us. Most people are relatively new to blogging and they are asking excellent questions. Anton Zuiker is leading the session. Brian Russell, Wayne Sutton and I pitch in as needed.
clock | January 17, 2008Yes, about 200-something people will be participating in the Science Blogging Conference in the real space and real time, being physically present. But, both those who are here and those who are not should also participate online.
Here are the three main places to do so:
1. The Wiki
The main conference wiki, set up by Anton Zuiker, is the center of the conference universe. Look around and see what is happening. Check the 'Recent Activity' tab to see who made changes to what page recently. Feel free to edit pages - no need to enter the e-mail address (it will reject your edit) - just solve…
clock | January 17, 2008The Science Blogging Conference is tomorrow and Saturday. We have 214 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
I have been highlighting the participants for the past couple of months, and today is the time for the final part of this roll-call:
Stuart Pimm is the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at the Nicholas School at Duke University
Nancy Shepherd is the Director of Technology Licensing and Worldwide Business Development at GlaxoSmithKline
Tania Mucci is a medical student at Jefferson Medical College
Clinton Colmenares is the Research Editor at UNC News…
clock | January 17, 2008You can follow the conversation about the Conference by checking in, every now and then, the Blog and Media Coverage page on the wiki. The links to date can also be found under the fold...
If you want your posts to be easily detected and included in the listing, please use 'scienceblogging.com' as a tag, or as text or link inside your post.
Media Coverage
Raleigh News & Observer (Dan Barkin): Bloggers to talk science
BlueSci, Cambridge UK (Mica Tatalovic), pp.30-31: Science Blogging (pdf)
BT Catalyst (NC Biotechnology Center): The BT Catalyst Interview with Christopher R. Brodie
M.…
clock | January 14, 2008
Well, The Day has arrived! The Open Laboratory 2007, the 2nd anthology of the best science blogging of the year, is now up for sale on Lulu.com!
Yes, you can buy it right here!
In a few weeks (and I will be sure to tell you), the book will also available in online and offline bookstores.
You can read the background story, see all the submitted entries and the winning 53 posts.
All the kudos go to this year's editor, Reed Cartwright for doing a magnificent job on every aspect of the process - from summoning posts for submission, getting volunteers to judge the posts and providing all sorts…
clock | January 14, 2008There are 4 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 214 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. I have been highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Irene Klotz is a veteran journalist and author who writes about space, science, and astronomy, most recently for the Discovery Channel and Reuters
Jayne Byrne is a freelance writer and she blogs at Jayne's Breast Cancer Blog
Regina Ali is the lead Research Technician in the Genome Research…
clock | January 13, 2008Last-minute odds and ends in organizing the Conference required me to be awake today when I met with Anton, who took this picture to show I was taking it very seriously. Hover your mouse over the cup....
clock | January 13, 2008There are 5 days until the Science Blogging Conference. Both Zuska and Karen are urging their readers to contribute questions, thoughts and ideas for their session on Gender and Race in science: online and offline - go help them out!
clock | January 12, 2008There are 5 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 212 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. I have been highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Melissa Srougi is a postdoc at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Molly Keener is the reference librarian at Wake Forest University Health Sciences and a blogger.
David Stein is the educational partnership coordinator in the Office of…
clock | January 11, 2008If you look at the Program page on the wiki for the Science Blogging Conference, you will see, for the Saturday program, there are 12 excellent sessions, a panel and a talk. Each has a discussion page which you should edit to add your own thoughts, ideas and questions.
One of the sessions I expect to have a big draw, particularly with so many science teachers at the conference, is the session on Teaching Science: using online tools in the science classroom, led by a real pro on the topic - David Warlick. David already has an ongoing discussion of the session on his own blog where you are…
clock | January 10, 2008I can't believe that the Conference is only about 10 days away! Almost everything is set and ready to go and we are all very excited.
If you look at the Program page, we have assembled a star-studded group of speakers and moderators who will lead sessions on a number of interesting topics. Of course, if you are registered, you will be there to participate in person. But even if you are not, you are not completely shut out - there are ways that you can participate from a long distance away.
Go again to the Program page and you will notice that each session has a link to its own Discussion…
clock | January 8, 2008There are 13 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Frank Bell of Bell Associates Inte4rnational Llc, Rayetta Henderson, a toxicologist and journalist and John White of NC will be there.
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about…
clock | January 7, 2008There are 14 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 220 registered participants and the registration is now closed.
The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Lisa Warner, Bill English, Aaron Lerner and Jonathan Tarr are coming from the Duke University campus.
If you are registered, you will get to meet them in person very soon.
Now is the good time to:
Find and exchange information about hotels, rides, etc. Do you want to…