Regular (daily, weekly) Journal Clubs are crucially important events in the life of labs. By reviewing other labs’ results it is a way to get synchronized with all the data accumulated by a particular subdiscipline. Moreover it is the most obvious everyday form (conferences are not that frequent) of secondary peer review of the given paper, when experts in one lab heavily criticize the story, methods, data and assumptions of experts in the other competitor lab.

Now the question is how to move the Journal Club format to the web without losing its merits and retaining its role in a lab’s life? Short answer: by embedding the Journal Club events of individual labs in a multimedia (and here the screencast form is preferred compared to making videos) format into a social networking site of scientists.
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