Category Archives: SBC-NC’08

I don’t have to remind you every day, but behind the scenes, we are busily working on the organization of the 2nd Science Blogging Conference. The organizing committee is meeting on Thursday and I’ll report on any news and updates then. The new wiki is almost all set up (and it will be updated on Thursday as well).
One of the pages we have not moved yet from the old to the new wiki is this one, a list of resources for finding science blogs, as well as a list of blogs that showcases the diversity of the scientific blogosphere and serves as an entry point into it without being too intimidatingly long and comprehensive. So yes, the list is totally subjective. I picked a number of blogs I know well that are as different from each other as possible so there is something there for everyone. The target audience are conference participants who are not familiar with science blogs, but are interested to find out more. So there is a small sampler for them.
I’ve been working on the list a little bit last night until I got tired and went to bed. Now, I’d like to ask you to help me, not by adding another gazillion science blogs, but by suggesting perhaps a dozen top medical blogs that are not already on the list. The medical blogosphere is rapidly expanding and I am not able to follow it as closely as I did before. I also am aware that several prominent medbloggers have recently stopped blogging (and perhaps restarted?). So, help me out, either in the comments here, or directly by editing that wiki page.
Also, did I miss any of the carnivals (bottom of the page), aggregators, or good articles about science blogging?
Finally, let me use this post for my monthly reminder to nominate posts, your own or other bloggers’, for the 2nd science blogging anthology. Use this online form. And go here to pick up the code that can help you spread the word about it.

Anton has done some work on the website for the second NC Science Blogging Conference. The homepage/portal is now here (which makes it easy for linking by everyone) and the wiki has moved here.
You can sponsor the conference, or donate, or sign up to volunteer or help shape the program by adding suggestions (by editing the wiki). Registration opens on September 1st, but you can always e-mail me with questions or to tell me about your intentions to register.

Things are moving fast with us regarding the organization of the second Science Blogging Conference. We received a very generous grant from Burroughs Wellcome Fund which will allow us to get even more ambitious with our planning than we originally thought we could. Is your organization going to try to match their grant? Or help in some other way? Watch this place next week for updates.