Graham Steel

Whatever next?! There is nothing worse than news channels touting the latest XYZ as a potential cure for cancer, sigh. - Sally Church

I'm (and many others) with you on that Sally 1000%. Richard Smith in action in Canada 2008 here:- http://jove-blog.blogspot.com/... - Graham Steel

Thank you Zhiming for spreading the word about OA Day to the science blogging community in China :-) - Graham Steel

You can put your URL in the comments of Bora's announcement post: http://scienceblogs.com/clock/... - Dorothea Salo

Thanks! Hi Bora, other judges and all, don't forget to check my entries there. Synchroblogging... - Zhiming M. Wang

Congrats on the post Neil and for being the 1st OA day related blog post - Graham Steel

Ha ha, I already wrote mine! (No, it's not posted yet. I'm waiting for the 14th.) - Dorothea Salo

I'm finished too, posting in the morning (my morning that is..). Looking forward to all these posts. - Nils Reinton

Will be the 14th in five minutes, so I better finish up... - Heather

Only one of the Eisen's could come up with something like that :-) - Graham Steel

mail: michael.kuhn AT gmail - Michael Kuhn

on its way to you Michael - Graham Steel

thanks! - Michael Kuhn

Housekeeping - I'm on vacation Friday to Sunday with no opportunities for blogging/FF. I'll switch the PC back on on Monday - Graham Steel

I guess the photo means you're not going to Norfolk. - Bob O'Hara

Correct Bob http://farm1.static.flickr.com... - Graham Steel

I wonder whether we can get Dorothea to recite this if her voice recovers in time for OAD !!! El challenge has been set ;-) - Graham Steel

(@ Cam, probably not a bad idea. Apparently, Mark's more Banjo but does play bass if one asks nicely) - Graham Steel

Graham, could be a very bad idea - haven't touched it for ten years....need to put some practice in obviously - Cameron Neylon

Interesting - Graham Steel

Participation from the more senior people seems to indicate that their first priority is communicating science efficiently, which is different than giving the appearance of doing so within systems of artificial metrics - Jean-Claude Bradley

Part of the argument is that top journals rely on their rankings/prestige on a few highly influential scientists who are increasingly disinclined to jump through publishing hoops and are likely to leave, demoting the journals' prestige. This suggests that we might see a two-class system emerging, where highly cited authors (presumably likely to remain so) get an easier editorial time than the plebs. This might be already true, but it's likely to increase. Discuss. - Chris Cotsapas

Some favourites of mine: "Us" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...; "Women in Art" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...; Homer's "Illiad" and "The Odyssey". - Michael Nielsen

It's a classic Michael that Lessig used at TED:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Graham Steel

Great, Graham! Thanks for the link! - Michael Nielsen

Great news that this room has been formally acknowledged by the OAD folks - yeah. Keep tuned in @ http://openaccessday.org/ for new alerts. - Graham Steel

NO way! I thought you were going to say "April Fools"! eek. - Christina Pikas

Thank you! - Bora Zivkovic

i thought it was very strange that they could even buy PubMed Central. d'oh! - Jeremy Leipzig

WOW - Graham Steel

I'd feel a whole lot better about this if Jan Velterop were still at Springer. - Bill Hooker

Got a reply/comment from someone at Springer at OWW Blog post: http://blog.openwetware.org/co... - Ricardo Vidal

The text for Timo's superb presentation about the future of scientific publishing at the recent Science in the 21st Century Workshop. - Michael Nielsen

Timo is cool and the next time I see him, I hope to say more than just "Hi". - Graham Steel

Extremely clueful. - Andrew Perry

related thread:- http://network.nature.com/grou... - Graham Steel

"Stand-up comedian Chris Coltrane discovered some 90-year-old science mags in his attic. Highlights include a Tube train that doesn’t need to stop, a discussion about whether the Earth is flat, and musings on whether we’ll ever harness the ‘horsepower’ of the atom. Awesome!" Comment and link found via here:- http://network.nature.com/peop... - Graham Steel

@ Stian. I would suggest contacting Liz Allen at PLoS - lallen@plos.org She will be able to assist you. - Graham Steel

The webcasts are going up online, I believe, so you can still organize a later showing. - Dorothea Salo

I've just spoken to PLoS and can second what Dorothea said. - Graham Steel

Petabyte was a new word to me until today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... - Graham Steel

Keep an eye out for updates from http://openaccessday.org/ and nearer the day itself, here. - Graham Steel

Still one of the best videos around about Creative Commons. http://support.creativecommons... - Graham Steel

cool as funk - Graham Steel

Better than anything else he's done. - Bob O'Hara

As Lessig says, "This is remix" - Graham Steel

Shouldn't that be "blog a post"? - Richard Akerman

Blog as a noun means a chronological series of written articles/comments/entries/posts. Blog as a verb refers to the act of maintaining a blog. It's used just like the underlying verb, log. You can keep a log of your progress, but you wouldn't refer to any entry in that log as the log itself. I see people do this occasionally, and it bugs the everliving crap out of me. Presumably these people are being told they should blog more, and haven't disambiguated the blog/post/comment concept. - Mr. Gunn

However, it's important that we have unique words for these very different things(because they're used in the same context), and usage shouldn't change just because people haven't bothered to check the actual definitions. - Mr. Gunn

In the context used, here:- http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/20... - Graham Steel

Whilst the 1st OA Week was great and next years will be better, OA Day has the support of > 100 organisations across the world and promises to be a really important event. - Graham Steel

Just created a FF room for this:- http://friendfeed.com/rooms/op... - Graham Steel

Totally biased: OpenWetWare (www.openwetware.org) :) - Ricardo Vidal

There was an article on S2.0 and openness in science in popular Polish magazine two weeks ago. After becoming officially Polish S2.0 advocate, my presentation must follow :) - Pawel Szczesny

will post mine too on Google docs as soon as I have it ready... :-) - Ntino

Reading up on the latest sulphate to come my may in the form of Chondroitin. Posted some comments and a link to a new PLoS Biology Manu to PatientsLikeMe-ALS Forum. - Graham Steel

What will we be using in another 12 months? - Martin Fenner

Or another month?! - Maxine

what is FriendFeed? - Graham Steel

Do you have a link? - Sally Church

Here ya go Sally:- http://biology.plosjournals.or... - Graham Steel

Graham, thanks very much - Sally Church