Category Archives: SBC-NC’08

There are 67 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. The anthology should be published in time for the event. There are already 127 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Patricia Campbell of Campbell-Kibler Associates is a blogger on FairerScience.
Aaron Rowe writes for the Wired Science Blog.
Andrew Pratt is the Assistant Editor of Science Progress (a project of the American Progress) where he runs their blog.
Matthew Ford writes for Nobel Intent.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 68 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 125 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Boris Hartl is the Web Content Specialist at NC Biotechnology Center
Lucy Ringland is the Technical Editor/Application Analyst at NC Office of State Budget & Management.
Mauricio Borgen is the IT Administrator at Athenix Corp. in RTP (agricultural and industrial biotechnology).
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 69 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 123 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Kristin Jenkins is the Education and Outreach Program Manager at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, or NESCent, a really cool collaborative organization here in the Triangle.
In order to meet her, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 70 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 123 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Kaitlin Thaney works for and blogs for Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons. We first met at Scifoo, and just the other day at the “Publishing in the New Millennium” meeting at Harvard. She also runs her own personal blog about the world and business of science.

In order to meet her, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 71 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 119 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Kim Gainer teaches Literature at Radford University in Virginia. She also writes fantasy fan fiction. Her daughter Patty Gainer is a student at Radford High School. Last year, Kim and Patty brought Paddington Bear to meet Professor Steve Steve. Who knows who they will bring this time?!

Rhonda Dillingham teaches English in the amazing Zoo School in Asheboro, NC. I don’t know about Paddington Bear, but who knows, perhaps Rhonda can bring a real animal straight from the Zoo!

In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 71 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 121 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Karl Leif Bates is the Manager of Research Communications at the Office of News and Communications at Duke University. Last summer, Karl did an experiment asking undergraduates involved in summer research to blog about their experiences – you can find their blogging (some of it brilliant!) at the Student Research at Duke blog.
Heymo Vehse is an Analyst Programmer at Duke University (is this the same person?).
Kelly Malcom is a new editor at Duke Medicine. She is a Duke grad, and worked for last six years at Science News.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 72 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 119 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Vanessa Woods is the author of It’s every monkey for themselves and a researcher with the Hominoid Psychology Research Group. She is moving to Duke in January. She just came back from Kongo where she did research on Bonobos, which she dutifuly reported daily on her blog Bonobo Handshake (and we know how they shake hands….).
In order to meet her (I don’t think any bonobos will be coming with her, though), you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 73 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 119 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Careful long-time readers of my blog may have noticed that I sometimes mention and link to my friend David Warlick. I first met Dave and saw The Wizard in action, at the Podcastercon where he led the session about podcasts in education. He is a former teacher and now a nationally renowned speaker/instructor on all things technological in education. It is worth your while to check out his blog 2c Worth as well as his educational podcasts. He also runs Landmark Project for Schools, Class Blogmeister and Hitchhikr and is the author of three books on technology in the classroom. At the Conference, he will be leading a session on Teaching Science: using online tools in the science classroom.

In order to meet him, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 74 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 118 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Eric Roston is an author and a freelance journalist in Washington DC. He blogs on Carbon Nation.
David Brooks is a columnist for the Nashua (New Hampshire) Telegraph and a blogger.
Chris Brodie is an associate editor at the American Scientist magazine.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 75 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 116 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Karen James (aka ‘Nunatak’) of the Beagle Project and the Beagle Project Blog (and the Project Beagle Store) is coming as well. She will be joining the guys in co-moderating the session on Real-time blogging in the marine sciences.
In order to meet her, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 76 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 114 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
I heard that herding cats is difficult. Managing people who write the 64 scienceblogs is perhaps impossible as cats, at least, have patience. But Virginia Hughes does it effortlessly – responding to all our questions and demands, picking Buzz terms, quotes and photos for landing pages, and posting herself. And on her own blog as well. I hear she has read every single post ever written by a Seed scienceblogger plus most of the comments! That is a full-time job in itself! And she is coming to the Conference (and is bringing cool swag with her for the participants).

In order to meet her, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 77 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 113 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Antony Williams is the Director of ChemZoo Inc, which runs ChemSpider which is an Open Access online database of chemical structures that enable chemists around the world to data-mine chemistry databases. And he runs the science blog ChemSpider Blog
Robert Peterson is an Assistant Professor (neurodevelopment) at UNC and a front-page blogger at BlueNC in Chapel Hill.
Rob Zelt is a software developer and blogger in Carrboro, NC.
Lenore Ramm is a computer scientist and IT analyst and a blogger in Hillsboro, NC.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 78 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 113 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Janet D. Stemwedel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. Her blog is Adventures in Ethics and Science. Last year, Janet gave the Big Blogger Talk which was universally loved (many participants, in a subsequent survey, singled it out as the high point of the entire meeting). This time, she will lead a session on Science blogging ethics. Here she is trying to log into wifi at ‘3Cups’ cafe during last year’s conference [photo by Eva]:

Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in Iowa. Apart from her own blog Aetiology, she also participates in a couple of group blogs, including The Panda’s Thumb and Correlations (the WIRED Science blog). Together with Becky Oskin, Tara will lead a session on Blogging public health and medicine.

In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 79 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 112 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Emile Petrone is a young entrepreneur who designed and runs one of the first science-specific online social networks – Knowble.net.
Jason Fox is a UNC student, a computer geek, a blogger and a User Experience engineer at Lulu.com.
Ryan Somma is a software developer, a science enthusiast, a volunteer at The Port Discover Science Center and a blogger in Elizabeth City, NC.
Steve Burnett works for Opsware and is a blogger.
Justin Abbott is the creative force behind Blogintel, providing blogging tools.
Bernard Glassman now works for 3AM Communications, a communications consulting firm.
Lilyn Hester is the Account Executive for Capstrat, a strategic communications firm.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 80 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 112 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Enoch Choi, M.D. is a Partner in Urgent Care at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. He blogs on Doctor Geek, M.D. and Medmusings.
Anatole Pierre Fuksas is a philologist coming all the way from Italy. He is writing his book on a blog – The Ecology of the Novel.
Deepak Singh is the Manager of Strategic Planning at Rosetta Biosoftware, founder/developer of Bioscreencast, and one of the most influential bloggers on all things Science 2.0.[cartoon by Pierre, nervous about scifoo]

In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 81 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 112 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Erika Wittchen is a postdoc in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at UNC – Chapel Hill and the veteran of the first Conference.
Scott Singleton studies drug-resistant microorganisms at the UNC School of Pharmacy.
Andrea Novicki used to work on neuroendocrinology of behavior, and is now an Academic Technology Consultant at Duke. Her job is to help Duke faculty learn and use new technologies (yes, including blogging!). We first met at a local bloggers meetup, she came to the first Conference, and she came to my session at ConvergeSouth a couple of weeks go (yeay! Thank you!).
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 82 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 109 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.

Jennifer Ouellette is a former English major turned science writer. She has published articles in places such as Discover, New Scientist, and Salon, as well as two delicious books: The Physics of the Buffyverse and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics. For most of us in the blogosphere, though, we know Jennifer (and her alter-ego Jen-Luc Piquant) from her amazing blog Cocktail Party Physics.
Jennifer will be the Guest Star of the Conference, giving the Big Talk at the end of the day.
In order to meet her, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 83 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 109 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Tatjana Jovanovic, better known to the readers of this blog by her online pseudonym ‘tanjasova’ was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where she received a Masters of Science in Biology in 2002. She started out in biochemistry and immunology, but later decided to completely change her focus and move on to the Great Outdoors and do ecological work. She was a Researcher at Ecology Department of Institute for Biological Research “Sinisa Stankovic” in Belgrade, Serbia, for a number of years, studying predator-prey relationships (mostly looking at avian predators and rodent prey) and discovering that some species previously not know to live in Serbia actually do live there. She was also a coauthor and trainer of Environment protection and Biodiversity & Sustainable Development programs for teachers in 2003-2004. She is a Research Associate of the Global Owl Project. And she is an artist. She recently moved from Arizona to North Carolina (see the links 2-4 in this paragraph for more information).
Danica Radovanovic is a Graduate of the University of Belgrade (Serbia), City University (UK) and UNC-Chapel Hill (USA), with a Masters from University of Belgrade. Danica Radovanovic is currently living in Belgrade and describes herself as the “open source ambassador and evangelist”. She founded and was Editor-in-Chief of the first e-magazine when she moved to Chapel Hill and then at UCSD where she worked as information management professional and web activist on online databases for the UC campus. She is also member and active ‘person’ at Institute of Distributed Creativity listserv where and is a columnist for Global Voices Online (Harvard School of Law and Internet) writing on issues on blogs world wide and on east european blogosphere situation. She works on a volunteer basis for E-LIS (European consortium of science libraries). Danica is the tireless Serbian pioneer in all things online: blogging, open source, Linux, science blogging, open science, social networking software, online publishing, eZine editing, etc. She is the force behind putting Serbian science online and making it open. She has done research on Internet use in Serbia in comparison to the UK and the USA and has been a tireless advocate for the Internet, open source computing and Open Science, traveling around Serbia and the world talking about it. She is also a cybrarian and has experience working at the Library of Congress.
It is not finalized yet, but Tanja and Danica may lead a session on a topic titled somehwat like this: “Overcoming cultural barriers to Open Science in the developing world”.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Get updates and get in touch with other participants via our Facebook Event group (I see that some who originally responded “Maybe attending” are now registered).
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 84 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 108 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Cynthia Yu-Robinson is a public affairs specialist in EPA’s National Exposure Research Laboratory.
Ken Krebs is an EPA scientist. He is an analytical chemist responsible for the collection and analysis of trace compounds in air.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 85 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 106 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD student studying hearing (more precisely hair cell regeneration in the cochlea) at the University of Michigan. She writes the excellent blog Retrospectacle where you may have also met her parrot Pepper. She is currently in the second place for the 2007 Blogging Scholarship and, since the voting ends midnight of the 28th, she needs your vote now!

Kate Seip is a PhD student at Rutgers, exploring the intersection between hormones, brain, and (mostly parenting, but also reproductive) behavior both in her research and on her delightful blog The Anterior Commissure. I am proud that the picture of her on her blog profile was taken by me, around 1am in New York City this past summer:

Brian Switek is another Rutgers student, majoring in ecology and evolution, with a particular interest in palaeontology. He is the most recent addition to Seed Scienceblogs – see his lovely blog Laelaps for the new stuff and dig through the archives of his old blog for additional bloggy goodness (before it gets gradually moved to the new site).

Anne-Marie Hodge is ambitious: working towards a dual Zoology/Conservation Biology degree and minoring in Ecology and Anthropology at Auburn University in Alabama. She also works as an assistant in the Mammalogy Department of the Auburn University Museum of Natural History. Although a young undergrad (just turned 21), she has already done some cool field research on maned wolves and loves to write about bats on her delightful blog Pondering Pikaia.

These four student bloggers (together with a couple of others I have already introduced in this series of morning posts) will be on the Student blogging panel–from K to PhD at the Conference.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.
If you are coming, exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Some of our Friday lab tours are now in place, so you can start signing up to join one of them.
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 86 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 105 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Science is not just physics, chemistry and biology. There are also psychology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, etc. And then, there are bloggers who write about history, sociology and philosophy of science. So here are some of those science bloggers making a long trek to the Triangle in January:
John McKay is a historian from Alaska who has been writing the Archy blog for, like, forever.
When he is not writing about his favourite topic – mammoths – John blogs about WWII, the Nazi stations on Antarctica, Velikovski and the current abuses and rewritings of history.

Mary Evelyn Starr is a contract archaeologist in the MidSouth, taking drafting/surveying classes at Northwest Mississippi Community College. Oh, and blogging, of course.

Martin Rundkvist is an archaeologist who is coming to the Conference all the way from Sweden. If you are reading the Scienceblogs.com, you must have read his fascinating Aardvarchaeology blog.

Martin and John will be leading a session on Blogging about the Social Sciences and Humanities.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. If you are coming exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.
Please use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 87 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 103 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Heather Soja is the Focus Program Lead Teacher and the Biology teacher at the brilliant AHS Zoo School in Asheboro, NC. Yes, that school that I have written about before, where students spend the whole day at the NC Zoo, do projects and learn.
Alisa White is a science teacher at Nash Central Middle School in Nashville, NC.
Matt Promise taught Science, Calculus and Physics to grades 7-11 and is also a blogger.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school. If you are coming exchange information about where you are staying, if you are offering a ride, need a ride, or want to carpool on the Ride Board – just edit the wiki page and add the query or information.

There are 88 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 96 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Abel PharmBoy is a good friend of mine and a great blogger on Terra Sigillata. He “writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, academic career development, medical journalism, making and listening to music, and wine appreciation for the monetarily- challenged.”

James Hrynyshyn is “a freelance science journalist based in western North Carolina, where he tries to put degrees in marine biology and journalism to good use”. He writes the excellent Island Of Doubt blog.

Dave and Greta Munger are a husband-and-wife team writing the delightful and innovative blog Cognitive Daily. Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger is a writer whose works include Researching Online and The Pocket Reader. At the Conference, Dave will lead a session on Building interactivity into your blog – more than just comments and trackbacks.

In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 89 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 96 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. student with the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre. She blogs on Shifting Baselines and will come all the way from Vancouver, Canada to join us at the Conference.

Apart from being a friend and a local blogger, Sheril Kirshenbaum is a marine biologist at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University. She recently joined The Intersection blog and even more recently the Wired Science blog Correlations.

Chris Mooney is Washington correspondent for Seed magazine and the author of two books, The Republican War on Science and the newly released Storm World, as well as numerous articles on the politics of science and science communication. He blogs on The Intersection, the first science blog I ever discovered.

The three of them – Jennifer, Sheril and Chris – will be on the Changing Minds through Science Communication: a panel on Framing Science at the Conference.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures. You can also download and print out the flyers (PDF1 and PDF2) and post them on bulletin boards at your office, lab or school.

There are 90 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 96 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Liz Allen is the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Public Library of Science and she would love it if you joined the PLoS Facebook group 😉

In order to meet her and all the other participants, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 91 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 95 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Helen Chickering is a longtime television health reporter, now working with the NBC News Channel
Dan Barkin is the deputy managing editor at The Raleigh News & Observer, where he writes cool pieces about blogs and new journalism (check them out!), and he writes a blog, and another blog.

Adnaan Wasey is the Interactives Editor of the Online NewsHour – yes, that NewsHour (the one with Jim Lehrer), on PBS. Specifically the Science Reports. If you were here last year, Adnaan (together with Lea Winerman) led the session on online science education.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 92 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 95 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Peter Etnoyer is ‘a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water’ (copied straight from his “About Me” section). He blogs here on Seed scienceblogs on Deep Sea News.
Kevine Zelnio is a ‘Marine Biologist and Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology and systematics of deep-sea invertebrate organisms at hydrothermal vents and methane seeps.’ His blog is The Other 95%.
I met Rick MacPherson last summer in San Francisco. He is working on coral reef preservation with the Coral Reef Alliance and he blogs on Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets
Jason Robertshaw works at Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida and runs Cephaloblog, Cephalopodcast and Cephalovlog. I guess he has a thing for Cephalopods (sounds familiar?).
These four guys will moderate a panel on real-time blogging in the marine sciences at the Conference.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 93 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 95 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Reed Cartwright is a postdoc in Genetics and Bioinformatics. He blogs on De Rerum Natura and makes sure that the server of Panda’s Thumb is always up and running and looking good (along with blogging there as well, of course). I believe that Professor Steve Steve is his idea. And he is this year’s editor of the Open Laboratory, the anthology of the best science blogging of the year.
James Reale-Levis is a graduate student in Environmental Systems and a blogger.
Christian Casper is a Ph.D. student in the Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. With degrees in chemistry and English, he is interested in rhetorics of science, technology, and the environment, technical and professional communication and electronic communication in science.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 94 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 94 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Rachael Clemens is a PhD student in the School of Information and Library Science. Oh, and she is also a blogger.
Christina Whittle is a graduate student in the Lieb Lab, studying protein-DNA interactions. Oh, and she is also a blogger.
John Weis is a Junior, majoring in Information Science. Oh, and he is also a blogger.
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 95 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 91 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Sarah Wallace is a senior at Duke, majoring in public policy and global health. She spent last summer doing research in Chernobyl, which she reported from on her blog Notes from Ukraine.

Eric Michael Johnson studies primatology and neuroendocrinology at Duke University and writes an awesome blog – The Primate Diaries.

In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner. And use ‘scienceblogging.com’ as your tag when writing blog posts about it or uploading pictures.

There are 96 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 89 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Rob Gluck covers a very narrow niche – only the news and views about the Ivory-Billed Woodpacker.

Olive Ridley covers the environment, India, and turtles.

In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free. Check the map for nearby hotels. And sign up for the Friday dinner.

There are 97 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 89 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Pascal Lapointe and Josée Nadia Drouin work for Montreal-based Agence Science-Presse, where they are building a platform with a series of French-language science blogs, called Science! On Blogue, largely modeled after the super-successful Seed Scienceblogs.com, of course!
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free.

There are 98 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 85 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
A lot of SciBlings are planning to come this year, representing a wide range of interests and blogging styles, from the ecology of Jeremy Bruno, through neuroscience of Evil Monkey to evolutionary genetics of RPM. As is now a tradition when SciBlings meet, I expect them to sing karaoke at the end of the day….
In order to sing with them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free.

There are 98 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 85 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.

Anna Kushnir is a science blogger on Nature Network. Apart from her science blog Lab Life, she also runs a food blog Sunday Night Dinner. We have first met at Scifoo (where this picture is from), and more recently here in Durham for the foodblogging event. She is organizing a Future of Scientific Publishing conference in Boston in a couple of weeks, so we’ll get to meet again!

Euan Adie works at Nature in the web publishing department, designing all the neat Science 2.0 applications there, as well as blogging on Flags and Lollipops, Nascent and FnL. We have also met at Scifoo (as well as for a couple of minutes when he visited PLoS in July).
In order to meet them, you know what you have to do: register! Registration is free.

There are 99 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 85 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Xan Gregg is local. He works for SAS (in the JMP division – a statistics software I have used a little bit back in the day) and he also blogs on Forth Go, mainly about programing and the representation of data.
Jean-Claude Bradley is a professor of chemistry at Drexel University. The biggest proponents of Open Notebook Science, he and the members of his lab make all of their daily lab work immediatelly public on their wiki. Check his blog and the Drexel Island in Second Life.

At the Conference, Xan and Jean-Claude will lead a session on Public Scientific Data, i.e., posting, displaying, using and re-using scientific data online. Register today and participate in their session.

There are 100 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 83 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I will be highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Christina Pikas is a science librarian at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She blogs on Christina’s LIS Rant and she can tell you how wonderful last year’s conference was.
John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library at York University in Toronto and, as you know, he runs the wonderful blog Confessions of a Science Librarian.

There are 101 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already many registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I will be highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Science museums will be well represented at the Conference. So far, we know that John Durant, the Director of the MIT Museum, Troy Livingston, the Vice President for Innovation and Learning at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, NC, and Roy Campbell, the Exhibit Director at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC will be attending the proceedings.

If you want to meet them in person, register today. Registration is free.

There are 102 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program (now completely reshuffled) is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 82 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Between now and the conference, I will be highlighting some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
Hemai Parthasarathy is a dear friend of mine, and one of the Biggest Stars we managed to attract to our conference. After getting degrees in biophysics and systems neuroscience and some postdoc time in neuroscience, she decided to change her career trajectory and accepted the invitation from Nature to serve as an editor, where she remained for five years, and then joined the team that founded PLoS Biology where she worked as the Managing Editor for another 4.5 years. She has talked and written quite a lot about Open Access and the business of science publishing and you can hear her talking about it in this podcast recorded at the last SXSW conference.
At the Conference, she will lead the session on Open Science and you are invited to add questions, comments and ideas for the session by editing this wiki page. To meet Hemai in person, you’ll have to register for the conference – registration is free!

There are 103 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already many registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so (we’ll cap at about 230). Here are some of the people who will be there, for you to meet in person if you register in time.
My Scibling and dear friend, Suzanne Franks, aka Zuska describes herself as…well, go and read how she describes herself. If you write something sexist, Super-Zuska will put her cape on, fly to wherever in the world you are, and puke on your shoes. And if you donate to schools through Zuska’s Challenge on DonorsChoose, you will be eligible to win the Grand Prize: a t-shirt emblazoned with the unforgettable words: “Zuska says: Don’t make me puke on your shoes.”

Karen Ventii, besides being a SciBling, is a Ph.D. student of biochemistry at Emory University in Atlanta GA and is looking for a career in science journalism or writing. Karen and Zuska will co-moderate a session on Gender and Race in science: online and offline. You can already start asking questions (by editing that wiki page).

There are 104 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 81 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so(we’ll cap at about 230). Starting today, I’ll start introducing the participants here, pretty much daily. I’ll start by getting the organizers out of the way first 😉

Anton Zuiker is a blogger and a journalist, and currently works as manager of internal communications at Duke Medicine. He is the founder of BlogTogether and the driving force behind the local blogging community – no meetups, bloggercons or other events would have happened without him. Not to mention such initiatives as Storyblogging and Foodblogging. Read a nice recent story about Anton in the Raleigh News & Observer.

Brian Russell is an independent Social Software and Multimedia Consultant and the local podcast and multimedia guru. A couple of years ago, he organized a Podcastercon about which I wrote this post. With his wife Ruby and a few other local political activists, he also writes Orange Politics, the popular hub of the local political scene (if you don’t show up there, you cannot win a local election, pretty much). Also, as far as I know, Brian and Ruby were the fist couple ever to use a blog to get their friends, in the comments, to suggest details about their wedding, from location and decorations, to the menu and her dress.

Paul Jones is a blogger, a poet, a Blooker Prize judge, the director (and founder?) of Ibiblio.org and a professor at UNC schools of Journalism, where he teaches classes on topics like Blogging, We the Media and Virtual Communities. And again, being online is ‘in the family’ – as his wife Sally Greene (Go Greene!) is a member of the City Council who blogs beautifully.

Oh, and I’ll be there, too:

So, if you want to meet us in person, you need to register – it’s free!

There are already 80 registered participants for the Science Blogging Conference with almost four months still to go! Reserve a place for yourself by registering today!

Just a reminder – watch out as I am now getting into that mode when I get on everyone’s nerves with promoting the conference almost daily – that there are now 60 amazing people already registered for the conference, so you should register soon, before we reach the cap. Don’t forget to sign yourself for the Friday dinner as well. The Program is getting closer and closer to its final shape. We’ll need volunteers (especially local drivers) and we’ll be glad to get additional sponsors if your organization is interested.

Yes, we can play now – 52 with no Jockers! Though, to play rummy, we’d need a whole another deck. And we can get there fast if you hurry up!

Late last night we opened the registration for the 2nd Science Blogging Conference, to be held on January 19th, 2008 on the Sigma Xi campus (publishers of ‘American Scientist’) in the Research Triangle Park which is officially on the territory of Durham, NC.
To register, go to the registration form and fill out the details.
To see who is already registered, go here.
If you will be here on day before, on Friday, January 18th and want to join us for dinner, add you name to this list.
If you are on Facebook, join the Conference Event and invite your friends. Some of the news will be disseminated that way as well as on the BlogTogether blog. We will appreciate it if you could spread the word in whichever medium you are most comfortable – word of mouth, e-mail, online social networks, or your own blogs.
I know September 1st is a holiday, but opening the registration today will save our server as thousands of interested participants will spread themselves over a few days instead of all logging on at the same time 😉 This way, those of you who are perpetually online and get your information on blogs (and Facebook, etc.) will be able to get the first dibs, while the advertising for others will start on September 4th.
The wiki is ready for you to explore. The conference program is building up nicely – we secured some spectacular speakers and session leaders and are in negotiations with some others. Feel free to edit the bottom of that wiki page with your own ideas. Suggest a session and offer to lead it.
Of course, as the conference promises to be much bigger than last year (due to the media coverage after the first one – see this page for blog and media coverage) we need to cover the increased expenses (and provide food, swag, etc.), so if you and your organization are willing to be sponsors, please let us know.
And, we are planning to have the second Science Blogging Anthology released in time for the conference, so submit the best science posts written by you or by your favorite bloggers for our consideration.
If you blog about the conference, please make sure that ‘scienceblogging’ is somewhere in your text (or links) so Technorati can pick it up. That is also the tag for Flickr and other spaces.

After meeting Anton Zuiker a few days ago, I also managed to catch up with Brian Russell and Paul Jones, catching up on everything, but most importantly, shifting the organization of the 2nd Science Blogging Conference into a faster gear.
The wiki needs only a few more tweaks (some of the links are to the 2007 equivalents instead of the 2008 pages) which will be all fixed by the day we open the registration – on September 1st (mark your calendars). I know the 1st is a holiday, but this will save our server as thousands of interested participants will spread themselves over a few days instead of all logging on at the same time 😉 This way, those who are pathologically connected and perpetually online and get their info on blogs and Facebook will be able to get the first dibs, while the advertising for others will start on September 4th.
The conference program is building up nicely – we secured some spectacular speakers and session leaders and are in negotiations with some others. Feel free to edit the wiki with your own ideas. Suggest a session and offer to lead it.
Of course, as the conference promises to be much bigger than last year (due to the media coverage after the first one) we need to cover the increased expenses (and provide food, swag, etc.), so if you and your organization are willing to be sponsors, please let us know.
And, we are planning to have the second Science Blogging Anthology released in time for the conference, so submit the best science posts written by you or by your favourite bloggers for our consideration.

As you are probably aware, behind the scenes we are busily working on the organization of the 2nd Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is almost all set up – all that is missing are maps and information about travel, directions, etc. (and the dinner wiki) which will be there by the end of August. We will open the registration on September 1st, but you can always e-mail me with questions or to tell me about your intentions to register.
The program is slowly taking shape (go look – we have already lined up some phenomenal people to lead discussions), though I guess there will still be many changes and updates until the timetable and the content are firmly set in stone. The conference promises to be much bigger and better than the last one!
At this point, we are primarily working on securing funding. You (or your organization/company) can sponsor the conference (we’ll need cash, food, t-shirts, swag and other items), or donate, or sign up to volunteer.
If you click on this link you should be able to download a PDF file of a promotional flyer. Spread the word about the conference by printing out a few and pinning them to bulletin boards in places where you work or live.
Finally, let me use this post for my monthly reminder to nominate posts, your own or other bloggers’, for the 2nd science blogging anthology. Multiple submissions from the same blog are welcome. Use this online form. And go here to pick up the code that can help you spread the word about it.