Librarians can sometimes suffer unfairly from stereotypes. But footage like that below suggests there could be much more to your average librarian than might initially meet the eye. I certainly wouldn’t like to be on the receiving end of a late fine from any of these warrior librarians! [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2HJDGudAnU] See how long you can stifle…
Science Online 2010 wrapped up on Sunday and, despite its brilliant format, great networking opportunities and overall general coolness of fun and quirky participants, I was left with a dilemma. If anyone can possibly tell me how to wrap up a conference about science, the web, technology and journalism to fit into a Twitter post,…
A quick round-up of all that’s new and approved in the world of f1000. Or at least my corner of it. M’learned colleague Steve P is in North Carolina today, hobnobbing with the geeks at Science Online 2010. I decided not to go because I’d done quite a bit of travelling just before Christmas (admittedly…
Ah North Carolina, home to sweet potatoes, Krispy Kremes, Pepsi, the Wright brothers’ first flight, old-time music (whatever that is) and Venus Fly-Traps. And for four days in January, also home to the moderately sized gathering that is the Science Online 2010 conference. Skim over the program here and try to contain your jealousy at…
I’ve mentioned before about the superb efforts of our friend Darlene Cavalier in encouraging non-scientists (and some influential members of US Congress) to actively engage in science, which we gladly endorse. Darlene is working hard on the ScienceforCitizens website, which will be launched next month, but she also found time to be interviewed recently by…
I finally conquered the beast that is Youtube this morning, managing to upload a Flash video that was rejected more than 20 times previously due to some unknown error and proved to be too large for our Vimeo or Metacafe channels to handle. It feels something close to winning £10 in the lottery after spending…
Richard has previously mentioned some of the conferences he attends and speaks at to spread the word about F1000. One of the upcoming events on the calendar that we’re excited about is ScienceOnline2010. If you were one of the 226 people who signed up before registration closed, there’s an amazing program now up on the…
It’s not easy for any large gathering of people to almost completely bypass the interweb these days but the conference I attended last Thursday seemed to have achieved the anonymity MI6 spies could only dream of. Sure, there are thousands of conferences (in the real world and online) that go on daily in this city…
I was at the Internet Librarian International on Thursday and Friday of last week. Not the sort of conference I’m used to attending but as we were sponsoring it we had a speaking slot, and I seemed the obvious choice! Rather than talk about f1000 or give a ‘corporate’ presentation I talked about the Journal…
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