Unfortunately I cannot think of a nice title for this talk/session... Perhaps "Studying science blogs"? - Enro

Now, some more context around this suggestion: I recently wrote a research proposal on science blogs and although I already answered some of the questions above, I wanted to hear what the community has to say about it. Also, if we agree on a shared agenda and common research "priorities", we may progress as a global community. And who knows, maybe some of us will actually get money to run one piece or another of this research... - Enro

I juste realized that this is exactly the point Christina Pikas made after last year's conference http://christinaslibraryrant.b... : "A lot of what's coming across is people claiming value and other people not getting it. Or maybe, people claiming different benefits and arguing against each other. Also unsupported (like those I sometimes make (blush)) statements about why blogs are good/bad/indifferent for scientists/the public/policy makers/science in general. (…) I have lots of ideas for qualitative studies, but not so many for quantitative... but that's probably what's needed to get attention." - Enro

@Enro TBL coined the term "web science" for the scientific study of the web and people's behaviour on it. I think "Blog Science" is still there for the taking presumably? - Cameron Neylon from twhirl

@Cameron Right, I am already loving it :-) Although the right term would be "science blog science"! - Enro

Jim Hendler writes an occasional post about "web science" at Nature Network. - Maxine

thanks @Enro - this is what I study - informal scholarly communication in science and impacts of social computing technologies (primarily blogs) It's such an interesting topic - could really be studied at all levels (structural using SNA like my IEEE paper), group/community, individual (did a qualitative study on that) - Christina Pikas