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microblogging fills in the cool stuff between blog posts - Cameron Neylon

we're back with the video but light levels are bad - Cameron Neylon

or rather my camera isn't coping well - Cameron Neylon

lots of services to help with microblogging - Cameron Neylon

twitter obviously most well known - Cameron Neylon

contraints appear limiting but actually enables exciting stuff within limitations - Cameron Neylon

we're going rather meta - everyone going across to twitter - Cameron Neylon

rapid response e.g. earthquake - rapid information transfer due to low barrier to entry - Cameron Neylon

need to find your own voice - Cameron Neylon

just like blogging you will also find your niche - Cameron Neylon

useful for science to get conversation going - however, how about those scientists who worry about their ideas being stolen by their competitors? - Jo Badge

just realised I am broadcasting my laptop screen :-) http://www.mogulus.com/cameron... - Cameron Neylon

can be overloaded with information - Cameron Neylon

Social aspect is very important in twitter (context). - AJCann

continuous partial attention to what is going (i am already way too busy) - Cameron Neylon

twitter is like a waterfall - stream of posts coming in - stick your head in - see what is happening - get a feel but you don't necessarily need to dive in and mark everything you read - Cameron Neylon

can lead to less frequent posts, more frequent updates - Cameron Neylon

matt thinks it is important to get the ideas out there and start the conversation - Cameron Neylon

Series of tweets can turn into blog posts later. - AJCann

comparison to the scientific method - the loop of idea to publishing paper, getting feedback, but takes time -microblogging can fill the gaps in the publishing process - Cameron Neylon

matt brown is recording a better video of the slides - so will try to get them linked up later - Cameron Neylon

an easy low stress way into open notebook science - Cameron Neylon

open notebook tweets, lab team tweets, checking on the current temperature of the lab or group - can collaborate with other groups - Cameron Neylon

you would need a VERY good relationship with your lab members for a PI to monitor lab tweets without it feeling like big brother - Jo Badge

twitter has an API -> automated notebook science -> laboratory (instrumentation) tweets (sequencer tweets) - Cameron Neylon

connected scientific method - connecting with people - connecting with instruments - private or public comments - Cameron Neylon

like the idea of automatic tweets for sequencers etc. back to the original cambridge coffee pot! - Jo Badge

connecting to other resources (Library tweets) - Cameron Neylon

risk of single point of failure - twitter has had reputation for poor availability - currently a lot better - Cameron Neylon

other services such as identi.ca - implements twitter API but distributed rather than localisd on servers - Cameron Neylon

but don't just want text - can send links to audio/video/photos etc - Cameron Neylon

talked about publishing - also need to consider subscribing - one person has many feeds - think I can see where this is going :-0 - Cameron Neylon

Aggregation is a rescue for multiplicity of streams - Cameron Neylon

here comes friendfeed :-) - Jo Badge

onto friendfeed - probably won't describe this in detail here :-) - Cameron Neylon

Would love to be just now in the room next door... but I can see the slides from here... - Egon Willighagen

learn from people that you trust - link through people that you trust - discover new friends - and friends of friends - Cameron Neylon

enables conversations about any specific item - Cameron Neylon

showing martin's feed of the tour of London yesterday - Cameron Neylon

you see the network that you trust - 'in the network we trust' - Cameron Neylon

therefore high signal - low noise - Cameron Neylon

talked about subscription and publication - the key to microblogging is that you do both in one place/service - Cameron Neylon

this enables facilitated feedback - rapid and interactive - Cameron Neylon

Likeit: Facefeed ;) - AJCann

case study: The Life Scientists Room http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Cameron Neylon

and follow on to props for the BioGang http://openwetware.org/wiki... - Cameron Neylon

Same old faces popping up in all these places - very small community online at present. - AJCann

and applause - Cameron Neylon

question of spam or nonsense if for instance it is taken on by instutions - Cameron Neylon

@Eva - we all need multiple online personalities, personal and professional. - AJCann

question on the volume issue - how do you cope? Basically have to take the attitude that you're not following all the time - Cameron Neylon

question of finding another filter - the use of friendfeed to maintain the context of a specific conversation - Cameron Neylon

Dunbar's Number: http://scienceoftheinvisible.b... - AJCann

OOPS - forgot to hit refresh on this thread - discussion starting to fragment, here, twitter and mogulus chat. - mike seyfang

So that is YOUR laptop screen Cameron, you have also broadcast your probiscus once or twice ;-) - mike seyfang

I can't get onto the chat room on mogulus for some reason - but I think we're starting to push the limitations here. I am not seeing other people's comments until about five minutes later - Cameron Neylon

Question on the concern about scooping - how do you persaude people? - Cameron Neylon

the session on MB is getting the most MB comments ;) - Ian Mulvany

and we're done here. Roland Krause was the questions I think - Cameron Neylon