What's occuring - plugging the gaps
Brian Clegg
Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:19 UTC
I know there are two forums that asked for ideas for sessions, and Matt has said there are plenty now suggested – but I wonder if it’s possible to have a condensed overview of what’s currently suggested for the content (if it’s here somewhere I can’t find it). No doubt it will evolve over time, but would be nice to have a snapshot.
The main point of this is so we can see if there any obvious gaps that need plugging. The main one, for me, is that it seems at a skim through the suggestions that they are mostly about blogging by scientists. That’s brilliant, but as quite a lot of science bloggers (certainly on NN) are not ‘real’ scientists any more, but rather writers or editors in the science field (e.g. Henry, Maxine, Clare, me…) it would be nice to make sure there’s a session or two with a science writing feel, rather than blogging about ‘the science wot I do.’
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Hold tight, Brian. we’ll be putting up the programme in the next 48 hours.
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It may be interesting to compare and contrast:
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/22/rethinkingTheConference.html
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http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000080
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Thanks Bora for those links. I think the scientific community is pretty conservative in the way they put on their conferences so I think it can learn a lot of the tech community, which has been more innovative in conference formats, as shown by your first link. Scifoo is one step in that direction and a good example of the tech community inspiring the scientific one.
We decided to try for a hybrid approach with our conference (part of the agenda determined ahead of time, the other part open for sessions organized the day of) so we’ll see how this experiment goes on Aug 30!
Are you thinking of doing something different for the North Carolina blogging conference?
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