How to stop blogging
| Contributed by: | Gudmundur A Thorisson |
| Originally posted: | 10th July 2009: 12:30 pm |
| Last updated: | 10th July 2009: 1:04 pm |
| Short URL: | http://gen2phen.org/node/2534 |
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DOI:
10.1038/460152a
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doi:10.1038/460152a Nature editorial on blogging and reporting from science conferences:
.. Is the scientific conference in its death throes? Researchers have long anguished about the hyper-competitive culture that leads attendees to suppress their most interesting unpublished results. Such protectiveness can only be worsened by the increasing dissemination of results beyond the conference hall by bloggers. Those who attempt to regain control of communications face outcry. Certain corners of the Internet have been erupting in argument in the past weeks following an announcement by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York that it will henceforth require scientists who blog to ask the permission of presenters before firing up computers or mobile phones and publicizing their findings...
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#1 Good reply to the article in
Good reply to the article in this week's Nature Correspondence section:
Ian M. Brooks. Speed of reporting isn't the issue when your work is scooped. Nature 460, 796 (13 August 2009) | doi:10.1038/460796b