The current issue of The Scientist magazine has an article on science weblogs. Nodalpoint gets special attention as one of the first science blogs on the web. The author, David Secko, gives a fair assessment of the current state of weblogs for science. He emphasizes that weblogs have great potential for providing a new medium for sharing ideas amongst scientists:
Even more exciting is this: How about a blog after every scientific paper published? Here scientists could debate results in real-time right on a journal's homepage.
I won't elaborate on that, but simply point you to Spitshine's post on The internet is changing everything but scientific communication. Maybe weblogs are the answer ?
I was interviewed for the article, which was a new experience for me. I tried to make it clear that nodalpoint is a community driven site. It is because of the interesting contributions that nodalpoint is one of the best science weblogs around. Although this is not mentioned in the article I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has contributed to the site over the years: Daniel Gupta (currently in charge of Australia's national transport security), Neil Saunders (Archaea Web), Chris Cotsapas, Pedro Beltrao, Matt Hope (a.k.a. Dopey of Sysadmin fame), Jawahar Swaminathan (a.k.a Jaws, developer of BioBar), Marco Valtas, Alf Eaton (of HubMed fame), Toniher and of course many others.
