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Fri, 2006-01-13 04:52 — chris

Surfing to Nature's blog domain gives a RedHat Enterprise Aapche default page. Linux is more common than we thought...


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Fri, 2006-01-13 09:29 — Neil

Science blogs changes

Speaking of web hosting, popular blogs Pharyngula and Stranger Fruit have migrated to a new hosting service, Science Blogs. I've changed the reading list links accordingly.


Fri, 2006-01-13 15:33 — Greg

Science Blogs

PZ Myers explains the rational behind the move here.

I could see this coming: science blogging for money. I have debated running advertising on nodalpoint, however at the moment it is just not necessary. The hosting costs are modest and I just don't want to go down that road unless it is absolutely necessary. All I see is potential complications and more administrative work...


Fri, 2006-01-13 21:34 — PedroBeltrao

Alternatives to advertising

There are other alternatives like a anual pledge fund for example (i would contribute :). It could also be possible to try to get a grant for Nodalpoint to develop the ideas of collaborative science or just simply to develop it further as a bioinformatics hub.


Fri, 2006-01-20 16:18 — Greg

Collaborative science is

Collaborative science is still an intriguing idea and one I would like to see develop into something more substantial this year. I have been toying with the idea of inviting some of the 'bioinformatics bloggers A List' to host their weblogs on the same server as nodalpoint.

My reasoning here is that I would like to encourage the use of the structured blogging tools available for Wordpress. One way to do this would be to provide hosting and a pre-configured copy of Wordpress, with the journal paper review plug-in and Alf's Notepress extensions, to people who may actually use it. Consider it lowering the barrier to entry for anyone interested in an experimental platform for research/science/lab-notebook based blogging.

Of course you can always roll-your-own.

I would then like to aggregate paper reviews/recommendations to a central site, mix-in some tagging, FOAF, literature bookmarking from hubmed etc. and it could be the beginning of an open Faculty of 1000 or more importantly a an open collaborative science platform...

The downside of this would be the inevitable increase in bandwidth. An annual pledge fund (or advertising) may help here.

Just some thoughts, of course suggestions are welcome...


Sun, 2006-01-22 03:42 — chris

Notepress

I've been playing with notepress for a few days, gearing up to using it as an electronic lab book. So far, I have to say I like it. The structured blogging WP extensions come in handy too, thanks to alf's lookup hack on the journals page.

The only problem you may have here is privacy - some people may not want to blog about their work publically?


Wed, 2006-01-25 18:49 — Greg

The people behind the

The people behind the OpenWetWare lab/project have a brainstorming page addressing many of these common concerns. The page is an excellent starting point for discussion.