Maxine Clarke starts out to talk about how she got involved in blogging. - Martin Fenner

Why people blog: for CV (science writing), education, Issue-based, connect wth others with similar interests, develop writing skills, act as language bridge, self-expression - the last one probably being the main reason. - Martin Fenner

The language bridge one is quite odd, even with the example she gave -- seems quite negligeable compared to the others. - Enro

Three main blog platforms are mentioned: blogger.com, wordpress.com, and typepad.?... I always say "use open source when you can", so should really switch from blogger.com to wordpress.com... - Egon Willighagen

The role of blogrolls is changing, but they are probably still useful. - Martin Fenner

Martin, I note the same thing... FF is becoming more useful than blogrolls and/or Cb/Pg... - Egon Willighagen

Maxine discusses tags and categories. I wonder how useful they are for finding blog posts. I'm usually lazy with tagging and rather do search for posts. - Martin Fenner

Doesn't recommend Technorati as an infernal search engine: agree ! - Enro

@Martin: Tags permit serendipity, searching doesn't! - Enro

Pros and Cons of blogging networks such as scienceblogs.com and Nature Network. Pro: audience, technical support. Cons: lack of personality. Group blogs are good for hot issues such as climate change. - Martin Fenner

Building a community: write fairly often, open-ended posts, manage comments, comments on other blogs, participate in carnivals. - Martin Fenner

Blogging for peer-reviewed research as quality stamp. - Martin Fenner

Now Euan Adie is continuing the session. He talks about some more technical issues and tools, starting with WebCite: archive and timestamp blog posts. - Martin Fenner

Euan did great work on http://www.postgenomic.com/ - Egon Willighagen

Papers should be cited in blog posts by DOI. We had a recent discussion that the DOI is sometimes delayed after a paper is published. - Martin Fenner

Some journals (e.g. PLos One) link back to all blog posts about a paper. CrossRef has a Wordpress plugin to help with this. - Martin Fenner

Collecting links to papers is becoming more important. Euan has created some clever hacks to do this, mentioning chem-bla-ics by Egon and his Postgenomic. - Martin Fenner

The key here is that 'we' have the means of understanding the science people are writing about... and this is important to reduce the bureaucratic overhead of science publishing... - Egon Willighagen

Nature will soon be launching Nature Blogs, an aggregator of science blogs. - Martin Fenner

Read about the userscripts on InChI and DOI in this paper: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-21... - Egon Willighagen

Peter Murray-Rust asks whether people are driven to blogging networks such as scienceblogs.com because of technical difficulties. - Martin Fenner

Session ended... lunch time. Thanx, Euan, for mentioning Cb and my blog! - Egon Willighagen

the linking to DOIs was really useful to know! Thanks! - Lisa