Vitek Tracz, chairman of the Science Navigation Group (of which f1000 is a member), is a fan of compatriot Polish artist Andrzej Krauze, who is known for his humorous calendars and cartoons in the New York Times, New Scientist and Sunday Telegraph. Krauze amused our leader with this cartoon, which Vitek has had reproduced in…
I visited the cavernous confines of Olympia Grand Hall in west London yesterday, totally unprepared for the mammoth event that is the Online Information Conference (#online09 on Twitter). Not sure what I was expecting: maybe a few stands with bored sales reps handing out flyers on data management and XML development (they had some of…
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…
