how can we in the life sciences use real-time communication better? (and when will FF add citeUlike support?) - Christopher Harris

I think it's up to the citeUlike folk to approach friendfeed. They can use the popularity of this room as an anchor - Deepak Singh

what kind of support do you want for Citeulike? - Paulo Nuin

I think CiteULike works well "as is": you just import the RSS, same as for any non-supported service. Used to annoy me that such feeds were labelled "blog", but now they are titled simply "posted an entry" - works for me. FF could tweak generic RSS import a little more, but I don't see an advantage to specific CUL support. - Neil Saunders

I think the only advantage would be any comments/annotation you might add - Deepak Singh

Show the tags maybe. - Paulo Nuin

Oh yeah, tags and annotation might be a nice feature. The full feed contains journal and abstract, but FF seems to eat the extra info - unless that can be configured somehow. - Neil Saunders

anyway, getting off-topic; very cool to hear about the Gillmor Gang! - Neil Saunders

yea, if i remember right they were talking about how rooms is the most under appreciated feature in FF, but that life scientists have been using it quite well to discuss articles..... I guess it would be really good to have a discovery mechanism for finding rooms where people discuss exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in (e.g. MEA recordings from small invertebrate nervous system ganglia) - Christopher Harris

The Life Scientists kinda has its own story cause it was created about 2 minutes after the rooms feature went live, and I added the 30 or so life science types on Friendfeed at the time to the room. The rest is history. A discovery feature would be great given the number of rooms, although I seriously doubt there is a room for small invertebrate nervous system ganglia - Deepak Singh

@Deepak What a surprise !!!! There is a room for "small invertebrate nervous system ganglia" http://friendfeed.com/rooms... !!!!!!! - Pierre Lindenbaum

:-) - Deepak Singh

Back to the podcast - start at about 40 minutes in to hear the relevant discussion - Neil Saunders

You have to bear Steve Gillmor for 40 minutes to get there ... lol - Deepak Singh

I just had to join that small invertebrate nervous system ganglia room- nice select group ;-) I was thinking of starting one for my old scientific field of Giant African water bug flight muscle biophysics, but maybe a bit de trop. - Maxine