"A good summary Alan, and I agree about the first panel discussion. I was disappointed that the back channel was not as active as I expected, in fact it s a transcript not a commentary happened at the OU Socialearn event http://drbadgr.wordpress.com/2008...... . Perhaps this was because the main bloggers there were in the Nature ghetto and hadn't been pulled out into the real blogosphere yet."
- Jo Badge
Cameron Neylon: things have moved on. people are no longer worried about loosing their job when blogging.
- Roland Krause
Can blogging damage your career, or have things moved on from that? Peer review and issue of trusting sources and people. Does anything thing that there is a risk you won't get credit for blogging.
- Michael Barton
is there a risk later in your carer that you won't get credit for an idea? That is, if you blog.
- Ian Mulvany
Cameron's blog archive has gone 404... so, no first blog
- Egon Willighagen
Richard Grant, once being seen by his friends as the court jester - now being paid by his faculty to fly here from Australia.
- Roland Krause
Blogging to challenge. Do we assume blogging is bad for your career? How serious do management take blogging? Should you start anonymously?
- Michael Barton
can someone in the room pls thank Cameron for his excellent mogulus videocasts from this morning!
- mike seyfang
Takes issue with the assumption that blogging is bad for your carer
- Ian Mulvany
Showcasing university of Sydney blogs. Arts and humanities faculty not worried about blogging.
- Michael Barton
Few years ago, if you were caught emailing you would be considered to be wasting time.
- Michael Barton
Depends what you blog on... if it's about your science life, it is a waste of time... if it's like ELN, then it's part of science activities (IMHO)
- Egon Willighagen
popularity will come - compare blogging now and email in the past
- Jo Badge
they are now making an analogy between email and blogging? If you ask where do you find the time to blog, one could as well ask where do you find the time to email.
- Ian Mulvany
If you're not blogging effectively, you may be wasting time.
- Michael Barton
How can you persuade powers that be as to the relevance of blogging.
- Michael Barton
Down to the success or failure of the researcher. If you're successful, blogging is more likely to tolerated.
- Michael Barton
Some 6-7 people have had trouble with seniors about them blogging...
- Egon Willighagen
pmr asks how many people have had active hinderance vis a vis blogging,
- Ian Mulvany
Blogging can help crystalise thoughts => think through topics.
- Michael Barton
Scientists often feel that blog posts have to be perfect.
- Michael Barton
Paper -> blog is ok, and has been possible for a long time. Blog -> paper is not yet counted by ISI, and does not add to your citation count, and that is an issue that needs to be overcome, but as someone here points out, it can raise your profile as a person who is passionate, interested, and knowledgeable about your subject. The issue of perfection of the blog post is a very interesting point, one needs to be allowed to be imperfect.
- Ian Mulvany
Blogs useful for discussing half-baked ideas
- Michael Barton
Different people are looking for different things in a blog.
- Michael Barton
What is the importance of protecting IP, in context of posting on a blog.
- Michael Barton
Many kinds of blogs: news items, personal experiences, (raw) research results (ELNs), conference coverage, popularization... this makes using blogs for citation counts unapplicable. I use blogs are easier way of emailing to two or more mailing lists...
- Egon Willighagen
No credit system for posting work on a blog or wiki.
- Michael Barton
What if someone publishes similar work to what you've blogged online, can you claim that you showed this work first? Even if it was on a blog.
- Michael Barton
Cameron makes a very interesting point, who can say that they were the first to report on an issue.
- Ian Mulvany
Somebody stole data from my blog to publish a Nature paper. Will an interview panel or funding body care that you discussed it on your blog first?
- Michael Barton
Plagiarism is easier in the electronic age...
- Egon Willighagen
Incentive needs to change from only publishing papers, to also include blogging.
- Michael Barton
he asks us where he should say 'we were the first to report this' and point to a blog post. Im my opinion this is an important test case and he should absolutely do this.
- Ian Mulvany
If blogging a result becomes the standard for reporting results for the first time, then all scientists need to know this is the case.
- Michael Barton
ahh, another irish accent in the audience, wonder who that is.
- Ian Mulvany
People's obsession with 'scooping', recognition, career limiting moves, outing their colleagues and IP issues makes me think that a truly great Research Institution would find ways to remove these significant barriers to innovation. That would create a climate / environment in which scientists are much more likely to innovate. My observation from the land down-under is that those science bloggers who are more concerned with the common good seem to be the most innovative.
- mike seyfang
Blog as discussion rather than a citable piece of literate. Can a discussion in the pub be used as a citable object?
- Michael Barton
Henry Gee thinks that blogs are not citable objects. Blogs have the flexibility to be changed, I disagree totally with this point. It seems to me the culture of the web is often tied to giving precedence to people who have been the first to do x, or say y, or mash up a and b. To be able to point to a source where an idea bubbled up seems always a reasonable thing to do. As ever AW comes up with the clearest comment on the issue.
- Ian Mulvany
Egon on blogs as a replacement for news groups rather than journals.
- Roland Krause
Where is blogging in the continuum between discussion and publication in a scientific journal. Generating kudos to get a job position, or invited to a conference.
- Michael Barton
Many scientists don't realise that science is a continuous discussion. Testing and refuting hypotheses.
- Michael Barton
Blogging is currently a long game which does not bring immediate rewards (like conventional publication), but can lead to longer term career advantages - assuming you survive that long...
- AJCann
Molecular biology is a rapidly changing field. Most papers cited are less than five years old.
- Michael Barton
No matter blogging, peer review, etc, etc.... the only thing that should count is: "Show me the Data!"
- Egon Willighagen
Challenge from the panel: how can we get senior faculty blogging in a way that's entertaining and useful to the community
- Lisa
How can we get senior faculty blogging that is entraining and valuable. Challenging audience to find and encourage senior faculty to set up a blog.
- Michael Barton
incentive- featured in 2008 version of the Open Laboratory
- Lisa
Winning blog will feature as first entry in The Open Laboratory 2008
- Michael Barton
and they'll pay for you to go to some bootcamp thing too!
- Lisa
Nature will pay for blogger, and blogger encourager to attend SciFoo next year.
- Michael Barton
Winning based on most interesting and senior faculty.
- Michael Barton
"Plagiarism is easier in the electronic age... - Egon Willighagen" Nonsense. Please cite your evidence for this. If anything, as Jo said above, plagiarism is easier to detect in the electronic age.
- AJCann
Zemanta is a tool (IE/Firefox) plugin to suggest pictures and links.
- Martin Fenner
Richard, google for 'userscripts life science' for the paper that disucces the tool that modifies a publisher's webpage indicating that a paper has been discussed on Cb or Pg...
- Egon Willighagen
I think the problem is useful tags not just in the posts but also the comments
- Richard P Grant
Andrew makes the point it's NOT a technological problem, it's a social one: which is what I was saying.
- Richard P Grant
The ubiquity script 'addInChI this' has just been suggested to help bloggers overcome the technological problems of semantic blogging...
- Egon Willighagen
JC Bradley says that we should perhaps accept that there are multiple conversations and accept that...
- Richard P Grant
if 'we' scientists want to give the public good information why don't we all make sure that there is an accurate up to date entry on wikipedia in our subject? It will probably come up first on a google search
- Jo Badge
Jo, the major problem is that if you edit a wikipedia article it tends to get edited right back :/
- Richard P Grant
Jenny blogged about something that someone had already blogged about.. but the framing can be different, which is good. Ties back to the creativity session
- Richard P Grant
Mike, it was getting troublesome to maintain them both!
- Richard P Grant
Mike, you're the perfect example of what we are discussing here... split ups of discussions, which should be joined...
- Egon Willighagen
@RichardP That's not been my experience on Wikipedia Richard. If you substantiate your entry with publications, you can get reversions frozen as vandalism. This takes time and effort, no recognition for this type of activity from institutions, but I agree with Jo's point entirely - Wikipedia is the public face of science, not blogs.
- AJCann
wikipedia -richard - then edit it back. the power of the crowd only works if there is a crowd - if scientists embraced this idea, it would stick
- Jo Badge
whereas the experience of wikipedia that I have (second-hand; the stories make me run away screaming) indicate that it is more or less impossible to get something _true_ on wikipedia if a wikitard has control of the article. It's just not worth the effort.
- Richard P Grant