... taking place on Sat, January 19, 2008, and they have a wiki. It seems from the schedule, that the first day is a hands-on tutorial on blogging, while the second has more broad discussions on ethics (intellectual property?) of scientific blogging, how it can contribute to the advancement of 3rd world countries etc.
Also following a link from the conference's website, I found this book with the best science blog writings in 2006....
There is a famous place in London town, inside Hyde Park, known as Speakers' Corner. It is a space where free speech and self-expression prevail. At Speakers' Corner, anyone can say anything they like about anything they want to anyone who cares to listen. There are some obvious parallels between blogging and Speakers' Corner as well as one rather striking difference.
As of 2007, the Internet is mostly still a wild untamed jungle. Many people have tried to chart the territory, but what should a map of the internet look like?
It seems that most bioinformatics web services use SOAP, and the extent of their documentation is the accompanying WSDL file - not very helpful for anyone who wants to use them outside a workflow-type tool like Taverna, and even then often not descriptive enough to know what should go in each field.
The Semantic Web is (quote) "a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers". It will "unleash a revolution of new possibilities" using a magical "new" artificially intelligent technology called ontology. So says a much-cited article in Scientific American published back in May 2001. Most people who have read this article, fall into two camps: "believers" and "non-believers". Let me tell you a short story about a religious war between these two groups...
