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clock | December 12, 2009There will be, at ScienceOnline2010, at least two sessions dedicated to books and book publishing - From Blog to Book: Using Blogs and Social Networks to Develop Your Professional Writing and Writing for more than glory: Proposals and Pitches that Pay - as well as several others that will at least mention books as vehicles for distributing scientific information, popularization of science, or science education.
This got me thinking....about ways that the Web is changing the world of the book. I can think of three aspects of this:
1) Changes in the process of writing a book
It may not be a…
clock | December 12, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 4:30 - 5:35pm:
A. Online Reference Managers - John Dupuis and Christina Pikas moderating, with Kevin Emamy, Jason Hoyt, Trevor Owens and Michael Habib (Scopus) in the 'hot seats'.
Description: Reference managers, sometimes called citation managers or bibliography managers, help you keep, organize, and re-use citation information. A few years ago, the options were limited to expensive proprietary desktop clients or BibTeX for people writing in LaTeX. Now we've got lots of…
clock | December 11, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Kevin Emamy develops and runs CiteULike. You can read my interview with Kevin from a few months ago. At the conference, he will participate in the Online Reference Managers session.
Rhitu Chatterjee is the Multimedia Science Journalist and Podcast Host at The BBC/WGBH/PRI's World Science. She is on Twitter and at the Conference she will do a demo of World Science.…
clock | December 10, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Felice Frankel is a famous science photographer. She works at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School's Systems Biology, the Wyss Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is founder of the Image and Meaning series of workshops and conferences and leads the NSF-funded program Picturing to Learn. She has published some amazing books of science…
clock | December 9, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Peter Binfield is the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE and the Publisher at PLoS (all titles except Biology and Medicine), so, in a way, he's my boss. And he tweets. At the conference, Pete will lead a session on Article-level metrics.
Bonnie Monteleone is staff (in the Department of Biochemistry) and a MALS Student at UNC Wilmington. She blogs on The Plastic Ocean and…
clock | December 8, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
John Hogenesch is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Pharmacology where he studies a topic dear to my heart - biological clocks. I interviewed John a few months ago. At the conference, John will moderate the session on Science in the cloud and do a Demo of Social Networking and performance evaluation in scientific centers.…
clock | December 7, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Miriam Goldstein is a Ph.D. graduate student in biological oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She recently led the Seaplex expedition to the North Pacific Gyre aka Garbage Patch. She blogs on Oyster's Garter, on DoubleX and the Seaplex blog and she tweets both as seaplex and as herself. I interviewed Miriam after the last year's conference. At…
clock | December 5, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 3:15 - 4:20pm:
A. Government 2.0 - Anil Dash
Description: Introducing new tools for scientists to give feedback to the Obama Administration and asking for feedback on making it work, and work well. Discuss: here.
B. Open Access Publishing and Freeing the Scientific Literature (or Why Freedom is about more than just not paying for things) - Jonathan Eisen
Description: Open Access (OA) publishing in science has and continues to spread. We will discuss a variety of issues…
clock | December 4, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Mary Ann Spiro is a Biotechnology graduate student and science writer/media director in the Institute for NanoBioTechnology at Johns Hopkins University. She writes for Baltimore Science News Examiner and tweets. At the conference, Mary will lead a workshop on Storyboarding your science video and posting it online and do an Ignite-style presentation "The Story of…
clock | December 4, 2009Michael Specter, the ScienceOnline2010 Keynote Speaker, was on DailyShow with Jon Stewart last night. Watch it:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Michael Specter
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes
Political Humor
Health Care Crisis
clock | December 3, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Kirsten Sanford, better known as 'Dr.Kiki', is a neuroscientist, a journalist, a blogger and a twitterer. She hosts The Weekly Science Talk Radio Program and Dr. Kiki's Science Hour on TWiT.tv. At the conference, she will co-moderate two sessions: on Podcasting in science and Science on Radio, TV and video.
John Timmer is the Science Editor of Nobel Intent at Ars…
clock | December 2, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Carl Zimmer is a science writer and journalist, a New York Times science writer, author of numerous books on biology and evolution, a prominent blogger and twitterer. At the conference, Carl will co-moderate the session Rebooting Science Journalism in the Age of the Web.
Tara Richerson is a science teacher, working in the Office of the Superintendent for Public…
clock | December 1, 2009
While the rest of the Program has been set for more than a month now, we have not yet announced who the Friday night Keynote Speaker will be at ScienceOnline2010. But now that all the negotiations have been done, we can do so. It is my pleasure to announce that we will have an exciting - and somewhat controversial - speaker that day - Michael Specter.
Michael Specter has started out in journalism at The Washington Post where he was, among else, the national science reporter and later their New York City bureau chief. He later moved to the Times and was the co-chief of the Times Moscow…
clock | December 1, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Glendon Mellow is a freelance artist-illustrator, currently a student at York University. He blogs at The Flying Trilobite and tweets. I interviewed Glendon earlier this year. At the conference, he will co-moderate the session on Art and Science: Visual Metaphors and lead a workshop where he'll teach how to Paint your blog images using a digital tablet.
Annie Crawley…
clock | November 30, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Stephanie Zvan is a science fiction and fantasy writer and editor. She blogs on Almost Diamonds and Quiche Moraine and tweets. I interviewed Stephanie on the blog, and Stephanie interviewed me on the radio. At the conference, she will co-moderate the session on Trust and Critical Thinking.
Bill Hooker is a molecular/cellular biologist and an Open Access evangelist.…
clock | November 29, 2009
The nicest post about ScienceOnline2010 to date was penned yesterday by Arikia Millikan, the former Overlord of Seed Scienceblogs.com (the image above is by her as well).
At the conference, Arikia will co-moderate the session on Web Science and I already introduced her here.
In her awesome post she compared the meeting to the Bonnaroo concerts. w00t! She writes:
For those on the forefront of the development of the Web, the World Wide Web conference was an event that educated, inspired and forged partnerships by connecting people whose paths would otherwise never cross…
clock | November 28, 2009The application deadline for the NESCent blogging competition and travel award to ScienceOnline2010 is December 1, 2009. So hurry up - see the contest conditions and entries so far and meet the judges.
So, hurry up. Write (or choose an existing) post in the area of evolutionary biology and send it in. Two lucky winners will get travel grants to ScienceOnline2010. Yes, we are full, and there are 101 people on the waiting list. But the two NESCent winners have their spots saved just for them!
clock | November 28, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Saturday, January 16th at 2 - 3:05pm:
A. Citizen Science and Students - Sandra Porter, Tara Richerson (science_goddess), and Antony Williams
Description: Students are a great resource for projects that require large numbers of volunteers. We will discuss examples of projects that combine student learning with authentic research and the power of blogs to connect students with projects. Discuss here.
B. Medicine 2.0 and Science 2.0--where do they intersect? - Walter Jessen
Description: Medicine 2.0…
clock | November 27, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Beatrice Lugger is a freelance science journalist and consultant, one of the founders of ScienceBlogs Germany and a twitterer. At the conference, Beatrice will co-moderate the session on Science online talks between generations.
Danica Radovanovic is a PhD student at the Oxford Internet Institute, a blogger and a twitterer. I interviewed her a couple of months ago -…
clock | November 26, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Ken Liu is the V.P. for Business Development at SciVee, Inc and he will do a demo of SciVee.tv at the conference.
Allyson Bennett is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She blogs on Speaking of Research.
Paolo Mangiafico is the Director of Digital Information Strategy at the Duke University…