Yes, just started... great to be here! Great lecture room! - Egon Willighagen

props for rpg for getting money out of a university - Cameron Neylon

we can all be famous for 15 people - Cameron Neylon

what is the long temr plan for science communication beyon tutus with the periodic table printed on them? - Cameron Neylon

why can you be obscure when writing about literature or music but not about science - Cameron Neylon

its the nerds who are being neglected - the people who did biochem at leicester and are now senior manages at woolworths - Cameron Neylon

story of a pr fluff story of treatment for dyslexia - criticism appears in pdf somewhere two years later. Saying something wrong on a blog gets an instant response - Cameron Neylon

Rapid response nature of blogs forces you to be more flexible - comments can lead you to realising you were wrong - Cameron Neylon

mainstream media is spineless and only deals in positive anedcotes - bloggers can be much more courageous - Cameron Neylon

tuned into the mogulus stream - friggin awesome! - mike seyfang

if you want to write a column in a newspaper - find the number and ring them up - they ask if you can write - you say yes - and that is it - Cameron Neylon

after he wrote a critical blog post someone else bought tht e google adword for the drug and re-redicted it to the blog- company was not happy - Cameron Neylon

once company went bust an exxciting open conversation taking place online - Cameron Neylon

bloggers chasing people making specious claims online - for various cranks this is quite disturbing - particularly those making lots of money - Cameron Neylon

it would be difficult to do something like linking MMR to autism today because there is an army of nerds/bloggers would take apart the detail and point to the real data - Cameron Neylon

to sum up - mainstream media sucks at covering science - blogs can expose the failings but can also covers science stories much better - actually comes from people who know what they are talking about - Cameron Neylon

BBC radio 4 is a good example of science journalism because 80% of wordcount is from the scientists talking about their own work - Cameron Neylon

just expressed some concern about being videod (too much swearing) :-) - Cameron Neylon

need less professional writers - and more people to edit the material directly from the people who know - Cameron Neylon

value of direct contact with the writer - timely writing - ability to argue - Cameron Neylon

'but the internet is full of nutjobs' - is the public view - how do I know who to trust. Deriving a new form of trust based on links to the primary source - the importance of a new form of trust based on your experinec of their writing and linking - Cameron Neylon

blogging embodies hard core peer review as it should be - Cameron Neylon