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ISMB – attending without travelling

By On June 25, 2009 · 2 Comments

It’s ISMB time again, and as colleagues jet off to Stockholm, I can’t help but feel that twinge of envy. Lucky then, that the conference organisers have a fantastic attitude towards live- and micro-bloggers, and after the success of last year’s efforts (see the FriendFeed room, and the [...]

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MMR scaremongerer sicks the legal dogs on Ben Goldacre

By On February 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

Let the blogosphere and twittersphere spring to his defence!

See here for full details, but a London broadcaster had a half hour long rant on her show about the ‘dangers’ of the MMR jab on 7th January.

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Twitter and Me

By On January 28, 2009 · 1 Comment

This is a bit of a follow-up to my post about FriendFeed. I registered for Twitter at the same time as FriendFeed, and while I immediately saw the value of FF for a long time I only saw Twitter as a tool to broadcast [...]

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Wordle

By On December 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’m a bit behind the zeitgeist here, I know, but Wordle is a pretty cool little tool. I think the cloud of my CiteULike tags fairly reflects my academic interests, and the fact that even after 5 years away from the lab, ‘wet’ techniques dominate, I really should make more of the [...]

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FriendFeed and Me

By On December 5, 2008 · 4 Comments

Apparently its bad for a blog to be introspective, and always about the author. But I’m unrepentant. What do people write about if not themselves, even indirectly? So here’s another post about me, and about my participation in a small web revolution.

Next week marks 6 months since I registered my [...]

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