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 [...]
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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 [...]
DeepDyve Does It Again: Fascinating Developments in Scholarly Publishing and Scientific Communication
February 11, 2010
I have been meaning to write about the latest quite fascinating doings at DeepDyve for several weeks. They are of interest to all of us who follow the news in research methods, scholarly publishing, e-content, online publishing, librarianship, Web matters and so on. Not to mention intriguing business models and interesting alignments of search/Web companies [...]
A Doctor’s Take on Participatory Medicine, Health IT and the E-Patient: A Talk With Daniel Sands of Cisco Systems
February 3, 2010
Before we begin, Dr. Sands, I’d like to give readers a bit of background. You are already well known to those of us who follow the movements Health 2.0, Medicine 2.0, the e-Patient movement, Participatory Medicine, Connected Health and to those who work in the fields of health information management, medical informatics and health IT [...]
The Indispensable Man of Open Science: A Talk with Cameron Neylon
January 28, 2010
Before we begin, Cameron, I’d like to give readers a bit of background as to how I heard of you and why I think it is so important for people interested in topics such as Medicine 2.0, Health 2.0, Science 2.0 and important societal trends and Web issues in general to know who you are [...]
The Connector of Open Science: A Talk With Antony Williams of ChemSpider
January 9, 2010
Before we begin, Dr. Williams, I would like to give readers a bit of background on why those of who are not chemists should know who you are and why ChemSpider is important. I came to learn of you as I have been trying, as the saying goes, to “wrap my head around” the concepts [...]
Health 2.0, Personal Genomics and Open Science: A Talk with Shirley Wu of 23andMe
December 17, 2009
Before we begin, Shirley, I’d like to give readers a bit of background as to who you are and why what you are doing is important. Those of us who follow the Open Science movement already know of your activity in FriendFeed on that topic and of your blog, of your doings on Twitter and [...]
