Very detailed explanation - will send it to friends. BTW, you still make the same mistake in my name ;) - Pawel Szczesny

I wish I was able to pronounce your surname. - Paulo Nuin

I've been saying "shainy" -- rhymes with "brainy" -- in my head. Pawel, how horribly wrong is that? :-) - Bill Hooker

I particularly like points 4 - 7 at the end. - Bill Hooker

piffle - I meant to check before I posted because I was sure it would be wrong... - Cameron Neylon

I've always pronounced it closer to Shezny (phonetically at least) ... but I could be way off as well - Deepak Singh

It was suggested in the OWW meeting that something like this might be useful and I thought it might be helpful for the Biogang review on collaborative tools (corrected spelling now as well) - Cameron Neylon

Cameron, it doesn't really matter - I was just laughing since this is almost everytime you write my name on your blog :). Bill, it's pretty much wrong - but I appreciate any attempt :). When we meet someday I will tell you how to pronounce it - and few others surnames for comparison ;) - Pawel Szczesny

I think what is impressive is that I get it wrong the same way each time :) - Cameron Neylon

Cameron, I have to admire your consistency :) - Pawel Szczesny

Great post! It'll be the first place I send people to when I mention FriendFeed and the Life Scientists room. - NatBlair

It's another thing to point to when people like David Crotty wonder if this stuff is really changing science after all. http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprot... - Mr. Gunn

I think David makes a lot of sense in that talk - but the flip side of the same argument is possibly well put by a post from Rich Apodaca that he linked to in a comment on another of my blog posts - http://depth-first.com/article... - Cameron Neylon

Nice work - useful summary. - Richard Akerman