It is around 4:30 a.m. here in Bethesda, Maryland and I am sitting at my little netbook and writing this before I tackle the task of packing (uuuuugh) before I head home from my time here at the 2010 Genetic Alliance Annual Conference. As I often do when at conferences, I reflect on how lucky [...]
Archive for July, 2010
The 2010 Genetic Alliance Annual Conference: An Inspiring Experience
July 17, 2010
It is ten minutes after five in the morning here in Bethesda, Maryland. I am attending the 2010 Annual Conference of the Genetic Alliance. I am incredibly impressed with the caliber of the speakers and attendees. It is really a privilege to get to meet and mingle with those in the genetics, rare disease and [...]
A Gem of an Article: E Is for Everything: The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary [E-]Journal
July 7, 2010
This post is about a gem of an article from 2002 notice of which came into my email inbox the other day and which is well worth reading even in 2010. The article is E Is for Everything: The Extra-Ordinary, Evolutionary [E]Journal by Gerry McKiernan The Serials Librarian, 1541-1095, Volume 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages [...]
Multilingual WorldWideScience: Accelerating Scientific Research, Empowering Researchers
July 6, 2010
One of the great pleasures of attending ScienceOnline earlier this year was that I finally got to meet Sol Lederman of the Federated Search Blog. During our chat (which came about via the gentlemanly assistance of Walter Jessen) Sol mentioned that his brother Abe Lederman of Deep Web Technologies was working in conjunction with the [...]
Open Science Summit 2010: A Truly Landmark Event
July 5, 2010
Attention everyone who cares about scientific research in general and Open Science in particular. I have just learned about what is being billed as the First Ever Open Science Summit (kind of presumptuous that given that ScienceOnline has been going strong for several years and Open Science is often discussed there and there have been [...]
