Article in Cell on Science Blogs

So what did you say?

Some of it is here:
http://scienceblogs.com/transcript/2007/04/to_write_or_not_to_write.php

And here is a snipet fom the actual article:

Blogging to Talk Shop
Alex Palazzo's blog The Daily Transcript
(http://scienceblogs.com/transcript) is
a mix of musings about research and
the ups and downs of postdoc life. A
postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Tom
Rapoport at Harvard Medical School,
Palazzo suspects that 95% of his
readers are other scientists, many
working on RNA or in related fields.
Although he always gives priority to
his bench research over blogging,
Palazzo says blogging helps him to
think about his work more clearly.
"One time I posted a question about
energetics of cells and one of my
readers pointed out an article published
in the 1990s that turned out to
be very insightful." He also gets useful
information by reading other blogs. "A
lot of bloggers are bioinformatics scientists
and computational biologists.
Their blogs often talk about Webbased
analysis tools," says Palazzo.
"I find it useful to sift through those
posts to find potential resources."
Although some of his posts are very
"science heavy," Palazzo, like most
scientist bloggers, does not talk about
his unpublished research, or that of
his colleagues. "Sometimes I will go
to a talk and will be very excited about
something I heard, but I hold back on
writing about it," he says. For bench
scientists, such openness might cost
them a publication or cause them to
get scooped. But there are exceptions.