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Congratulations

rafaelsidi — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:16:39 -0400

Folks, this is an excellent way of publishing/filtering/editing and analyzing blogs/content. Great concept to do this with scientific blogs.
rafael sidi
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Comments on Greg's comments

Neil — Thu, 03 May 2007 03:16:25 -0400

The funny thing about that "nominate a well-designed lab webpage" entry is that most of the submissions are exactly of the type that the writer complains about: web design circa 1996. Barely a CMS amongst them, never mind anything Web 2.0-ish.

I thought that an unfortunate aspect of the flagellum debate was how it's been tainted by an agenda. The Panda's Thumb is basically an ID/Creationism-bashing site and the flagellum is a favourite with the ID crowd. So from the outset it was "look, scientists are not afraid of debate about evolution - we'll even attack one of our own". My flagellum trashing is different to your flagellum trashing. A pity, because there may well be some technical aspects of the paper worthy of scientific criticism, but the whole thing got off on the wrong foot.

Thank you once again for

Greg — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:42:01 -0400

Thank you once again for compiling this edition of bioblogs. If you have not yet downloaded the pdf, I recommend it. It looks very journal like :)

Just a short comment on the Falagellum paper debate. I originally picked up on it via Zimmer's post, and was a little taken back by the brash way that Nick Matzke trashed the PNAS paper. I wouldn't agree that starting off by calling it a dog, before showing evidence why, was the best way to go about responding to the paper's deficiencies or errors. However, I think that now people are starting to see this type of online discussion surrounding a published paper it will go some way to increasing awareness that blogs can be a medium for discussion of published science. Sure, the tone of the debate so far won't *validate* blogs as a medium, but awareness is better than nothing.

Once PI's realized that blogs are their own personal soapbox for their pet theories, and it's okay (i.e. everyone else is doing it) for a "real" scientist to used the medium we'll never hear the end of it. Can you just imagine walking into the lab and your boss asks you if you read his latest blog post and if so why you didn't leave a comment :)

And finally a few a better-late-than-never entries to bioblogs: Bosco's latest on functional programing is worth a read and nominate a well designed lab webpage.

I agree, working here is hard

dalloliogm — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:36:28 -0400

Hi, I also work in the prbb institute in Barcelona.

Of course I agree that working here is very hard, and that there are less than ideal conditions.
Remember there is a beach volley tournament on the next week, probably they'll let you play even if you've not signed up ;).

Thank you for this Bio::Blogs edition, I've specially enjoyed the last post on bioinformatics/zen about the use of a wiki as a lab logbook.
I also like the idea of a pdf version of the posts, it's more comfortable to read.

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