So I've been here at the conference for a week now and it is becoming more and more like science reality TV. My veins are pumping pure coffee just to maintain sanity. This update is a little more live, the previous to posts were from yesterdays sessions. Again I just didn't have the mental energy to tidy up my notes and post them after the poster session. My poster got a fairly good response, it seems that biological XML standards and the semantic web is starting to get more recognition.
I also spoke to the Director of Operations at BioMed Central, Matthew Cockerill. I asked him about the BMC backend, whether they are planning to add more RSS to the site, make comments more prominent, allow track-backs etc. he was definitely open minded and enthusiastic about all these kinds of technologies (after all the have RSS already) but because they run a fairly serious productions site (with their own software) so these things will need to be considered. A good response, and he's also following the ISMB posts here.
I'd be interested in any feed back on this scientific conference blogging experiment.
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Thanks for the effort
I think it is an interesting an useful experiment. It has been for me very informative, even if you bias the coverage to your scientific interest :). What do you think about setting up a "section" for this type of event coverage ?
Conference updates
Agreed. We should have a little section for people to blog from venues of interest (not necessarily just conferences, either). I could hack into the taxonomy (again)?