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<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceblogsChannelEducation/~3/BPneu2xqmFg/very_young_people_blogging_abo.php">Very young people blogging about science [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.masonposner.com/home.htm" title="">Mason Posner</a> is a professor of Biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He also blogs on <a href="http://masonposner.com/afisheyeview/" title="">A Fish Eye View</a> (though I notice he did not update it in a while). About a year ago, and inspired by some discussions emanating from ScienceOnline'09, he <a href="http://masonposner.com/afisheyeview/2009/01/blogging-in-the-college-classroom/" title="">decided to try using blogs</a> in his teaching. He did it last spring. And he is doing it again this spring.

You can check out his Marine Biology Course <a href="http://ashlandmarinebio.blogspot.com/" title="">class blog</a>, where he and the students are all posting in one place.

But also check out his Senior Capstone course in Biology and its <a href="http://sciencebloggingatau.blogspot.com/" title="">class blog</a> - he is the only one blogging there - the students are required to start and run their own blogs.

Now look at the Class Blogroll on the margin - take a look at last year's (2009) student blogs - wonderful writing on all of them, good stuff. But! One of them is already <a href="http://leadingcauseofdeath.blogspot.com/" title="">deleted</a>. There are <a href="http://stupidnuclearplant.blogspot.com/" title="">four</a> other <a href="http://collectivepropylon.blogspot.com/" title="">blogs</a> that <a href="http://sciencehaggis.blogspot.com/" title="">stopped</a> posting <a href="http://adorablepancreasatau.blogspot.com/" title="">around</a> early May of last year, probably at the time the course ended. Only <a href="http://plague-erism.blogspot.com/" title="">one of the blogs</a> is still running today. Why did they stop?

Now check out this year's blogs - very, very nice stuff: <a href="http://scienceignorance.blogspot.com/" title="">The Difference between Ignorance and Apathy</a>, <a href="http://thesexyscience.blogspot.com/" title="">SexyScience</a>, <a href="http://fourthirstypandas.blogspot.com/" title="">Thirsty Pandas</a> and <a href="http://successorsofsolomon.blogspot.com/" title="">Successors of Solomon</a>. Lovely blogs. But will they last past May?

Now, you may remember a similar experiment at Duke - see <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/07/science_blogging_at_duke.php" title="">this</a> and <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/student_blogging.php" title="">this</a> and especially <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_2.php" title="">experiences of Erica Tsai</a> who ran the program. Why did all the Duke student blogs end once the class was over?

There is always a lot of chatter online (see the most recent commentary about a Pew study <a href="http://thecustomercollective.com/TCC/50320" title="">here</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6135OH20100204" title="">here</a>, <a href="http://www.thesocialpath.com/2010/02/why-teens-arent-blogging.html" title="">here</a> and <a href="http://trueslant.com/jmaureenhenderson/2010/02/09/teens-tongue-tied-or-just-too-cool-for-twitter-blogging/" title="">here</a>) about teens and college students not blogging. No, the kids are <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/02/technologically_conservative_y.php" title="">not naturally Web-savvy</a> - they also need to learn.

They use <a href="http://twitter.com/" title="">Twitter</a> much <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-youngsters-flocked-to-twitter-in-2009-2010-2" title="">more than the stats usually show</a>, <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/08/06/teens_dont_twee.html" title="">but mostly keep their profiles private</a> and only talk to each other. They use it instead of texting because it is cheaper and platform-agnostic. Of course, they are all on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?" title="">Facebook</a> (or <a href="http://myspace.com/" title="">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html" title="">depending on socio-economic status</a>), where they also interact with each other. The artistically inclined may connect with each other on <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/" title="">DeviantArt</a>. And yes, there are many who blog (though they may have predominantly chosen a more social blogging platform like <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/" title="">LiveJournal</a>).

All of the above are social uses, which is quite age-appropriate. Some of them (certainly not all) will, just like their elders, pick up blogging later, when they find a need to express themselves in long-form writing. Teaching them how to blog is part of their education, or at least should be.

But none of this really applies to the cases I started this post with - these are young people who have been taught how to blog, have done it well, probably got positive feedback for it from the instructor and peers, and obviously have something to say. So, why do they quit?

Is it because they see it as homework? Something that needs to be done for class, and can be stopped once the final grades are in?

Or is it because all the feedback they get comes only from the instructor and classmates? The class is a small community which formally and automatically dissolves the moment the semester is over. If the community is gone, who are you writing for?

Would they continue blogging if they felt they were a part of a larger community and, more importantly, a continuous community, one that has no expiration date? If we all sent them traffic by linking to their posts from our blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook etc., would they see that kind of feedback as a motivation to keep writing? If we posted comments on their blogs, would they feel like members of a broader community and would gladly continue engaging with it?

The same goes for even younger bloggers. Duke summer program had high schoolers blogging as well. How about <a href="http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/" title="">Miss Baker's students</a>? Would comments on their posts be felt as intrusive or would they be seen as welcoming to a broader community and motivating to keep writing?

Are one-off events, e.g., attendance at <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">ScienceOnline</a> conferences, sufficient to give students enough momentum to continue long-term?

Thoughts?

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/AFB1AA4ED7BF3C5AC12576C0006096BB?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 23/02/2010 - Education, Training and Competitiveness - International Experiences and the Egyptian Case</a>

<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceblogsChannelEducation/~3/BPneu2xqmFg/very_young_people_blogging_abo.php">Very young people blogging about science [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.masonposner.com/home.htm" title="">Mason Posner</a> is a professor of Biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He also blogs on <a href="http://masonposner.com/afisheyeview/" title="">A Fish Eye View</a> (though I notice he did not update it in a while). About a year ago, and inspired by some discussions emanating from ScienceOnline'09, he <a href="http://masonposner.com/afisheyeview/2009/01/blogging-in-the-college-classroom/" title="">decided to try using blogs</a> in his teaching. He did it last spring. And he is doing it again this spring.

You can check out his Marine Biology Course <a href="http://ashlandmarinebio.blogspot.com/" title="">class blog</a>, where he and the students are all posting in one place.

But also check out his Senior Capstone course in Biology and its <a href="http://sciencebloggingatau.blogspot.com/" title="">class blog</a> - he is the only one blogging there - the students are required to start and run their own blogs.

Now look at the Class Blogroll on the margin - take a look at last year's (2009) student blogs - wonderful writing on all of them, good stuff. But! One of them is already <a href="http://leadingcauseofdeath.blogspot.com/" title="">deleted</a>. There are <a href="http://stupidnuclearplant.blogspot.com/" title="">four</a> other <a href="http://collectivepropylon.blogspot.com/" title="">blogs</a> that <a href="http://sciencehaggis.blogspot.com/" title="">stopped</a> posting <a href="http://adorablepancreasatau.blogspot.com/" title="">around</a> early May of last year, probably at the time the course ended. Only <a href="http://plague-erism.blogspot.com/" title="">one of the blogs</a> is still running today. Why did they stop?

Now check out this year's blogs - very, very nice stuff: <a href="http://scienceignorance.blogspot.com/" title="">The Difference between Ignorance and Apathy</a>, <a href="http://thesexyscience.blogspot.com/" title="">SexyScience</a>, <a href="http://fourthirstypandas.blogspot.com/" title="">Thirsty Pandas</a> and <a href="http://successorsofsolomon.blogspot.com/" title="">Successors of Solomon</a>. Lovely blogs. But will they last past May?

Now, you may remember a similar experiment at Duke - see <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/07/science_blogging_at_duke.php" title="">this</a> and <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/student_blogging.php" title="">this</a> and especially <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_2.php" title="">experiences of Erica Tsai</a> who ran the program. Why did all the Duke student blogs end once the class was over?

There is always a lot of chatter online (see the most recent commentary about a Pew study <a href="http://thecustomercollective.com/TCC/50320" title="">here</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6135OH20100204" title="">here</a>, <a href="http://www.thesocialpath.com/2010/02/why-teens-arent-blogging.html" title="">here</a> and <a href="http://trueslant.com/jmaureenhenderson/2010/02/09/teens-tongue-tied-or-just-too-cool-for-twitter-blogging/" title="">here</a>) about teens and college students not blogging. No, the kids are <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/02/technologically_conservative_y.php" title="">not naturally Web-savvy</a> - they also need to learn.

They use <a href="http://twitter.com/" title="">Twitter</a> much <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-youngsters-flocked-to-twitter-in-2009-2010-2" title="">more than the stats usually show</a>, <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/08/06/teens_dont_twee.html" title="">but mostly keep their profiles private</a> and only talk to each other. They use it instead of texting because it is cheaper and platform-agnostic. Of course, they are all on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?" title="">Facebook</a> (or <a href="http://myspace.com/" title="">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html" title="">depending on socio-economic status</a>), where they also interact with each other. The artistically inclined may connect with each other on <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/" title="">DeviantArt</a>. And yes, there are many who blog (though they may have predominantly chosen a more social blogging platform like <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/" title="">LiveJournal</a>).

All of the above are social uses, which is quite age-appropriate. Some of them (certainly not all) will, just like their elders, pick up blogging later, when they find a need to express themselves in long-form writing. Teaching them how to blog is part of their education, or at least should be.

But none of this really applies to the cases I started this post with - these are young people who have been taught how to blog, have done it well, probably got positive feedback for it from the instructor and peers, and obviously have something to say. So, why do they quit?

Is it because they see it as homework? Something that needs to be done for class, and can be stopped once the final grades are in?

Or is it because all the feedback they get comes only from the instructor and classmates? The class is a small community which formally and automatically dissolves the moment the semester is over. If the community is gone, who are you writing for?

Would they continue blogging if they felt they were a part of a larger community and, more importantly, a continuous community, one that has no expiration date? If we all sent them traffic by linking to their posts from our blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook etc., would they see that kind of feedback as a motivation to keep writing? If we posted comments on their blogs, would they feel like members of a broader community and would gladly continue engaging with it?

The same goes for even younger bloggers. Duke summer program had high schoolers blogging as well. How about <a href="http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/" title="">Miss Baker's students</a>? Would comments on their posts be felt as intrusive or would they be seen as welcoming to a broader community and motivating to keep writing?

Are one-off events, e.g., attendance at <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">ScienceOnline</a> conferences, sufficient to give students enough momentum to continue long-term?

Thoughts?

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/AFB1AA4ED7BF3C5AC12576C0006096BB?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 23/02/2010 - Education, Training and Competitiveness - International Experiences and the Egyptian Case</a>

<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceblogsChannelEducation/~3/BPneu2xqmFg/very_young_people_blogging_abo.php">Very young people blogging about science [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.masonposner.com/home.htm" title="">Mason Posner</a> is a professor of Biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He also blogs on <a href="http://masonposner.com/afisheyeview/" title="">A Fish Eye View</a> (though I notice he did not update it in a while). About a year ago, and inspired by some discussions emanating from ScienceOnline'09, he <a href="http://masonposner.com/afisheyeview/2009/01/blogging-in-the-college-classroom/" title="">decided to try using blogs</a> in his teaching. He did it last spring. And he is doing it again this spring.

You can check out his Marine Biology Course <a href="http://ashlandmarinebio.blogspot.com/" title="">class blog</a>, where he and the students are all posting in one place.

But also check out his Senior Capstone course in Biology and its <a href="http://sciencebloggingatau.blogspot.com/" title="">class blog</a> - he is the only one blogging there - the students are required to start and run their own blogs.

Now look at the Class Blogroll on the margin - take a look at last year's (2009) student blogs - wonderful writing on all of them, good stuff. But! One of them is already <a href="http://leadingcauseofdeath.blogspot.com/" title="">deleted</a>. There are <a href="http://stupidnuclearplant.blogspot.com/" title="">four</a> other <a href="http://collectivepropylon.blogspot.com/" title="">blogs</a> that <a href="http://sciencehaggis.blogspot.com/" title="">stopped</a> posting <a href="http://adorablepancreasatau.blogspot.com/" title="">around</a> early May of last year, probably at the time the course ended. Only <a href="http://plague-erism.blogspot.com/" title="">one of the blogs</a> is still running today. Why did they stop?

Now check out this year's blogs - very, very nice stuff: <a href="http://scienceignorance.blogspot.com/" title="">The Difference between Ignorance and Apathy</a>, <a href="http://thesexyscience.blogspot.com/" title="">SexyScience</a>, <a href="http://fourthirstypandas.blogspot.com/" title="">Thirsty Pandas</a> and <a href="http://successorsofsolomon.blogspot.com/" title="">Successors of Solomon</a>. Lovely blogs. But will they last past May?

Now, you may remember a similar experiment at Duke - see <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/07/science_blogging_at_duke.php" title="">this</a> and <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/student_blogging.php" title="">this</a> and especially <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_2.php" title="">experiences of Erica Tsai</a> who ran the program. Why did all the Duke student blogs end once the class was over?

There is always a lot of chatter online (see the most recent commentary about a Pew study <a href="http://thecustomercollective.com/TCC/50320" title="">here</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6135OH20100204" title="">here</a>, <a href="http://www.thesocialpath.com/2010/02/why-teens-arent-blogging.html" title="">here</a> and <a href="http://trueslant.com/jmaureenhenderson/2010/02/09/teens-tongue-tied-or-just-too-cool-for-twitter-blogging/" title="">here</a>) about teens and college students not blogging. No, the kids are <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/christinaslisrant/2010/02/technologically_conservative_y.php" title="">not naturally Web-savvy</a> - they also need to learn.

They use <a href="http://twitter.com/" title="">Twitter</a> much <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-the-youngsters-flocked-to-twitter-in-2009-2010-2" title="">more than the stats usually show</a>, <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/08/06/teens_dont_twee.html" title="">but mostly keep their profiles private</a> and only talk to each other. They use it instead of texting because it is cheaper and platform-agnostic. Of course, they are all on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?" title="">Facebook</a> (or <a href="http://myspace.com/" title="">MySpace</a>, <a href="http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html" title="">depending on socio-economic status</a>), where they also interact with each other. The artistically inclined may connect with each other on <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/" title="">DeviantArt</a>. And yes, there are many who blog (though they may have predominantly chosen a more social blogging platform like <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/" title="">LiveJournal</a>).

All of the above are social uses, which is quite age-appropriate. Some of them (certainly not all) will, just like their elders, pick up blogging later, when they find a need to express themselves in long-form writing. Teaching them how to blog is part of their education, or at least should be.

But none of this really applies to the cases I started this post with - these are young people who have been taught how to blog, have done it well, probably got positive feedback for it from the instructor and peers, and obviously have something to say. So, why do they quit?

Is it because they see it as homework? Something that needs to be done for class, and can be stopped once the final grades are in?

Or is it because all the feedback they get comes only from the instructor and classmates? The class is a small community which formally and automatically dissolves the moment the semester is over. If the community is gone, who are you writing for?

Would they continue blogging if they felt they were a part of a larger community and, more importantly, a continuous community, one that has no expiration date? If we all sent them traffic by linking to their posts from our blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook etc., would they see that kind of feedback as a motivation to keep writing? If we posted comments on their blogs, would they feel like members of a broader community and would gladly continue engaging with it?

The same goes for even younger bloggers. Duke summer program had high schoolers blogging as well. How about <a href="http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/" title="">Miss Baker's students</a>? Would comments on their posts be felt as intrusive or would they be seen as welcoming to a broader community and motivating to keep writing?

Are one-off events, e.g., attendance at <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">ScienceOnline</a> conferences, sufficient to give students enough momentum to continue long-term?

Thoughts?

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/AFB1AA4ED7BF3C5AC12576C0006096BB?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 23/02/2010 - Education, Training and Competitiveness - International Experiences and the Egyptian Case</a>

<a href="http://www.formazione.ilsole24ore.com/e-learning/OA3786-formazione-online-professionisti-lavoro..php">La formazione online per i professionisti del lavoro. Ciclo di sette lezioni tenute dal professor Pietro Ichino</a>

La formazione online per i professionisti del lavoro. Ciclo di sette lezioni tenute dal professor Pietro Ichino

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/GuardianUnlimitedUK/Chinas-top-universities-will-rival/15879711/">China's top universities will rival Oxbridge, says Yale president</a>

China's top universities could soon rival Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League, the president of Yale University has warned.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus_mundus/events/infoday_2010_en.php">Videos from the Infoday 2010 now online</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/02/online-learning-gets-high-praise-from.html">Online Learning Gets High Praise From Bill Gates - Zach Miners, US News</a>

<a href="http://www.formazione.ilsole24ore.com/e-learning/OA3786-formazione-online-professionisti-lavoro..php">La formazione online per i professionisti del lavoro. Ciclo di sette lezioni tenute dal professor Pietro Ichino</a>

La formazione online per i professionisti del lavoro. Ciclo di sette lezioni tenute dal professor Pietro Ichino

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/GuardianUnlimitedUK/Chinas-top-universities-will-rival/15879711/">China's top universities will rival Oxbridge, says Yale president</a>

China's top universities could soon rival Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League, the president of Yale University has warned.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus_mundus/events/infoday_2010_en.php">Videos from the Infoday 2010 now online</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/02/online-learning-gets-high-praise-from.html">Online Learning Gets High Praise From Bill Gates - Zach Miners, US News</a>

<a href="http://www.formazione.ilsole24ore.com/e-learning/OA3786-formazione-online-professionisti-lavoro..php">La formazione online per i professionisti del lavoro. Ciclo di sette lezioni tenute dal professor Pietro Ichino</a>

La formazione online per i professionisti del lavoro. Ciclo di sette lezioni tenute dal professor Pietro Ichino

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/GuardianUnlimitedUK/Chinas-top-universities-will-rival/15879711/">China's top universities will rival Oxbridge, says Yale president</a>

China's top universities could soon rival Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League, the president of Yale University has warned.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus_mundus/events/infoday_2010_en.php">Videos from the Infoday 2010 now online</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/02/online-learning-gets-high-praise-from.html">Online Learning Gets High Praise From Bill Gates - Zach Miners, US News</a>

<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1597&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">I mass media possono svolgere un ruolo cruciale per l'eradicazione della povertà</a>

<a href="http://feeds.ilsole24ore.com/c/32276/f/438665/s/6ed08f1/l/0L0Silsole24ore0N0Cart0CSoleOnLine40CEconomia0J20Ae0J20ALavoro0C20A0A90C110CBanda0Elarga0Efondi0Econgelati0Bshtml0Duuid0Fe59ceaf80Ec9680E11de0E9d640Ef267f17dd1320GDocRulesView0FLibero/story01.htm">Banda larga: il governo congela 800 milioni</a>

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/infoday10/infoday_2010_en.htm">Lifelong Learning Infodays 2010 - Brussels 7 December: online registration closed</a>

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/NYTimes/Teach-Your-Teachers-Well/13825559/">Teach Your Teachers Well</a>

To fix our schools, the teaching programs need to be as dynamic as the young people we want to attract to the profession.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/AP/Obama-to-honor-young-inventors/14194219/">Obama to honor young inventors at science fair</a>

Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/A39F94CF5F3EC882C1257551003D248A?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 09/12/2009 - Teaching and learning in VET and lessons learned until today: policy and practice in Albania</a>

<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55757dba-e677-11de-98b1-00144feab49a.html">Schools' greener vision</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/cultivating-landscape-of-online-places.html">Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community - Mary Beth Rosson, et al; JETS</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/horton-hears-tweet-joanna-c-dunlap-and.html">Horton Hears a Tweet - Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal, EDUCAUSE Quarterly</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/10-ways-to-ensure-distance-online.html">10 Ways to Ensure Distance Online Learning Success - Cindy Wolfe, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/higher-education-costs-are-spiraling.html">Higher-education costs are spiraling out of control; quality leaves much to be desired. The solution: online learning - Michael Bassis, Business Week</a>

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/01/scienceonline2010_-_what_to_do.php">ScienceOnline2010 - what to do while there, what to do if you are not there but are interested? [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/"><img src="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/scienceonline2010logoMedium.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/" title="">ScienceOnline2010</a> is starting <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">in three days</a>! If you are not excited yet....well, I think you should be! And perhaps I can help you....with this post.

First, see the <a href="https://mistersugar.wufoo.com/reports/scienceonline2010-look-whos-coming/" title="">complete list of attendees</a>, or, if you want more details about everyone, browse through <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/category/blog/scienceonline2010/" title="">these introductory posts</a>. It is always good to know more about people you are about to spend two or three days with....

Then, check out the <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/Program/" title="">Program</a> to see which session in each time-slot you want to participate in. Go to individual session pages right now and join in the discussions, or ask questions. Start shaping the discussion online before it even starts offline.

This is an Unconference, meant to be highly participatory. The point of the meeting is to have conversations. The sessions' titles are meant to be topics for conversations, not lectures. The session moderators are supposed to keep the room engaged and on topic, not to drone on and on in a lecture. And then, there are all those informal conversations that happen in the hallways, and during additional events, and in the hotel lobby and at the hotel bar.....

What to do if you will not be physically present but want to follow? Graham Steel <a href="http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2010/01/scienceonline-2010-scio10-virtual.html" title="">has some ideas</a>, but there are plenty of ways to follow, and to some extent participate in the meeting.

This is an Unconference also in the sense that it is open. Not just that we allow, we actively encourage participants to cover the meeting online - not just sessions, but everything that happens there. The participants are encouraged to livetweet the meeting, to discuss it in various online places like FriendFeed and Facebook, and to blog about it: either liveblog, or a series of blog posts afterwards, or one big summary post at the end.

So, follow our <a href="https://twitter.com/scio10" title="">official Twitter account</a>, follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#search?q=scio10" title="">#scio10 hashtag on Twitter</a>, and follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#/list/BoraZ/scienceonline2010" title="">Twitter List that aggregates all the participants</a>. Subscribe to our <a href="http://friendfeed.com/scienceonline2010" title="">FriendFeed room</a> and our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118219988767" title="">Facebook event</a>. A lot of coverage will also be found on the <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/" title="">Science In The Triangle</a> site and blog.

All (except one) sessions will be recorded and the videos posted on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/scienceinthetriangle" title="">scienceinthetriangle</a> YouTube channel. You can also search YouTube for the #scio10 hashtag later on.

The sessions in rooms D and E will also be livestreamed on <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/TheRTP" title="">The RTP stream</a> - there are chatrooms on the side: use them to discuss in real time. We will have assigned "room monitors" who will check the chatrooms and, if they see an interesting question or comment, inject them into the real-world conversation in the room.

Likewise, these same sessions (in rooms D and E) will be livestremed into SecondLife on the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Research%20Triangle%20Park/128/129/25" title="">RTP Island</a>. Again, we will have someone keep an eye on the conversations there and may read out a good question out loud into the room.

We are also encouraging participants to make photographic, audio and video recordings of various events - not just sessions, but hallway conversations and other events. We hope they will interview each other. And then post all those audio and video files online and tag them all with #scio10 hashtag for easy search. We will collect everything from anywhere on the Web with that tag in one place - check the wiki (and our other communication channels) for more information when the meeting starts.

One way to warm up and get excited for the conference is to read some blog and media coverage from the previous years. Check out the collected links of coverage of the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/01/conference_blogging.php" title="">2007 meeting</a>, the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/science_blogging_conference_vi.php" title="">2008 meeting</a> and the <a href="http://www.scienceonline09.com/index.php/wiki/Blog_and_Media_Coverage/" title="">2009 meeting</a>. Of course, the 2010 meeting has already generated <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/BlogMedia_Coverage/" title="">quite a lot of coverage</a> (this time in reverse-chronological order) and we expect much more, so try to catch up (and add to it on your own blogs).

Finally, some of the past participants revealed much more about themselves in a series of interviews I conducted with them over the past two years. Many of them will be here again this year/week (marked with an asterisk) so you can see what they had to say about themselves, their science/Web projects, and about the conference itself:

The 2008 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/let_the_beagle_sail_interview.php" title="">Let The Beagle sail: Interview with Karen James</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/an_island_in_the_mountains_int.php" title="">An Island In the Mountains: Interview with James Hrynyshyn</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/bloggersinspaaaaace_interview.php" title="">Bloggers....In.....Spaaaaace! Interview with Talia Page</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/what_he_says_interview_with_de.php" title="">What He Says! Interview with Deepak Singh</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/per_holothuroidea_ad_astra_int.php" title="">Per Holothuroidea Ad Astra: Interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/how_was_it_for_you_interview_w.php" title="">How was it for you? Interview with Graham Steel</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/buffy_and_csi_in_the_writing_l.php" title="">Buffy and C.S.I in the Writing Lab: Interview with Jennifer Ouelette</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_viruses_to_viral_video_in.php" title="">From Viruses to Viral Video: Interview with Anna Kushnir</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/say_hi_if_you_see_him_running.php" title="">Say 'Hi' if you see him running - Interview with Dave Munger</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/a_different_kind_of_handshake.php" title="">A Different Kind of Handshake: Interview with Vanessa Woods</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/visualize_this_interview_with.php" title="">Visualize This! Interview with Moshe Pritsker</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_the_trenches_of_open_acce.php" title="">From the trenches of Open Access: Interview with Hemai Parthasarathy</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/openness_is_essential_freedom.php" title="">Openness is Essential Freedom: Interview with Vedran Vucic</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/fairerscience_in_an_unfair_wor.php" title="">FairerScience in an Unfair World: Interview with Patricia Campbell</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/our_seed_overlord_interview_wi.php" title="">Our Seed Overlord: Interview with Virginia Hughes</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_mite_hunting_a_dinosaur_th.php" title="">The mite hunting a dinosaur that could not catch a dog: Interview with Brian Switek</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_sirenian_call_interview_wi.php" title="">The Sirenian Call? Interview with Jennifer Jacquet</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/getting_publishing_up_to_speed.php" title="">Getting Publishing up to Speed: Interview with Bill Hooker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/riding_the_dinosaurs_toward_sc.php" title="">Riding the Dinosaurs toward Science Literacy: Interview with Gabrielle Lyon</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/survivorman_interview_with_aar.php" title="">Survivorman! Interview with Aaron Rowe</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/librarians_have_been_doing_it.php" title="">Librarians have been doing it for a hundred years! Interview with Christina Pikas</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/soapbox_for_puzzlesolving_inte.php" title="">Soapbox for Puzzle-Solving: Interview with Tom Levenson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/plos_it_rhymes_with_floss_inte.php" title="">PLoS, it rhymes with floss: Interview with Liz Allen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/isopodes_at_the_gate_interview.php" title="">Isopods At The Gate: Interview with Kevin Zelnio</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_future_is_here_and_it_is_b.php" title="">The Future is Here and it is Bright: Interview with Anne-Marie Hodge</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/science_librarian_in_a_confess.php" title="">The Warlord in the Library: Interview with John Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/kids_with_dr_in_front_of_their.php" title="">Kids with 'Dr' in front of their names: Interview with Ryan Somma</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_cool_aunt_of_the_sciencebl.php" title="">The Cool Aunt of the scienceblogging community: Interview with Janet Stemwedel</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/one_of_a_mind_interview_with_s.php" title="">One of a Mind: Interview with Shelley Batts</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/ebola_for_your_kids_interview.php" title="">Ebola, for your kids! Interview with Tara Smith</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/cuttingedge_communication_at_d.php" title="">Cutting-edge Communication at Duke: Interview with Karl Leif Bates</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/making_the_data_public_intervi.php" title="">Making the Data Public: Interview With Xan Gregg</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/watch_your_shoes_interview_wit.php" title="">Watch Your Shoes! Interview with Suzanne Franks</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/guarding_the_coral_reefs_like.php" title="">Guarding the Coral Reefs like a Moray Eel: Interview with Rick MacPherson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/start_them_early_interview_wit.php" title="">Start Them Early: Interview with Karen Ventii</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/think_of_a_dustfree_keypad_int.php" title="">Think of a Dust-Free Keypad: Interview with Rose Reis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/turning_the_tables_on_me_inter.php" title="">Turning the Tables on Me: Interview on the Confessions of a Science Librarian</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/shortly_after_hell_freezes_ove.php" title="">Shortly After Hell Freezes Over: Interview with Elisabeth Montegna</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/04/communicating_genomics_intervi.php" title="">Communicating Genomics: Interview with Kendall Morgan</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/removing_the_bricks_from_the_c.php" title="">Removing the Bricks from the Classroom Walls: Interview with David Warlick</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/doing_science_publicly_intervi.php" title="">Doing science publicly: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley</a>*

The 2009 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Sol Lederman</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Greg Laden</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with SciCurious</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Peter Lipson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Glendon Mellow</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with GG aka Dr.SkySkull</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Betul Kacar Arslan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Eva Amsen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with GrrrlScientist</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Miriam Goldstein</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Katherine Haxton</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stephanie Zvan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stacy Baker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bob O'Hara</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Djordje Jeremic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erica Tsai</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Elissa Hoffman</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Henry Gee</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Sam Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Russ Campbell</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danica Radovanovic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/clock_interview_john_hogenesch.php" title="">Clock Interview: John Hogenesch - genes, clocks, Web and ScienceOnline'09</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_interview_with_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bjoern Brembs</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erin Cline Davis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Carlos Hotta</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danielle Lee</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Victor Henning</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with John Wilbanks</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Kevin Emamy</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Arikia Millikan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_15.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_16.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Blake Stacey</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_17.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Daniel Brown</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/11/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_18.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Christian Casper</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/12/scienceonline09_-_an_interview.php" title="">ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Cameron Neylon</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/caryn_shechtman_a_blogger_succ.php" title="">Caryn Shechtman: A Blogger Success Story (an interview with Yours Truly)</a>*

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/narrowing-distance-using-e-learner.html">Narrowing the distance: using e-learner support to enhance the student experience - Patrick Kelly and Charlotte Stevens, EURODL</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/six-questions-for-entrepreneurial.html">Six Questions for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation in Distance (Online Learning) Education - Connie Reimers-Hild and James W. King, OJDLA</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/what-i-learned-from-teaching-adults.html">What I Learned from Teaching Adults Learning Online - Denise A. Blake, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://www.cnr.it/cnr/events/CnrEventi?IDn=2114">Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia</a>

Periodo: 05/02/2010

Città: Verona

Luogo: Fieragricola Verona, Bioenergy Expo, Centro Servizi dei Signori, Padd. 10/11

Oggetto: Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia

Abstract: In occasione del convegno, dove verranno presentati i risultati di ricerche e sperimentazioni della filiera bioenergetica, l’Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria del C.N.R. proporrà la terza edizione del Master in Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia<p> <p>Riferimenti: www.master-bioenergia.org

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/GuardianUnlimitedUK/Kenyas-nomads-welcome-mobile-schools/15547253/">Kenya's nomads welcome mobile schools</a>

Under a tree on a dusty plain in Kenya, a small group of young pastoralist children is sitting under the shade of a tree reciting a few words of English in unison.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/webinar-google-wave-in-higher-education.html">Webinar: Google Wave in Higher Education - January 27, the Sloan Consortium</a>

<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemshortdetail.cfm?item_id=3971&lang=en">E-Skills for a more innovative and competitive Europe</a>

Published Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:58 CET:

<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1597&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">I mass media possono svolgere un ruolo cruciale per l'eradicazione della povertà</a>

<a href="http://feeds.ilsole24ore.com/c/32276/f/438665/s/6ed08f1/l/0L0Silsole24ore0N0Cart0CSoleOnLine40CEconomia0J20Ae0J20ALavoro0C20A0A90C110CBanda0Elarga0Efondi0Econgelati0Bshtml0Duuid0Fe59ceaf80Ec9680E11de0E9d640Ef267f17dd1320GDocRulesView0FLibero/story01.htm">Banda larga: il governo congela 800 milioni</a>

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/infoday10/infoday_2010_en.htm">Lifelong Learning Infodays 2010 - Brussels 7 December: online registration closed</a>

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/NYTimes/Teach-Your-Teachers-Well/13825559/">Teach Your Teachers Well</a>

To fix our schools, the teaching programs need to be as dynamic as the young people we want to attract to the profession.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/AP/Obama-to-honor-young-inventors/14194219/">Obama to honor young inventors at science fair</a>

Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/A39F94CF5F3EC882C1257551003D248A?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 09/12/2009 - Teaching and learning in VET and lessons learned until today: policy and practice in Albania</a>

<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55757dba-e677-11de-98b1-00144feab49a.html">Schools' greener vision</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/cultivating-landscape-of-online-places.html">Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community - Mary Beth Rosson, et al; JETS</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/horton-hears-tweet-joanna-c-dunlap-and.html">Horton Hears a Tweet - Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal, EDUCAUSE Quarterly</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/10-ways-to-ensure-distance-online.html">10 Ways to Ensure Distance Online Learning Success - Cindy Wolfe, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/higher-education-costs-are-spiraling.html">Higher-education costs are spiraling out of control; quality leaves much to be desired. The solution: online learning - Michael Bassis, Business Week</a>

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/01/scienceonline2010_-_what_to_do.php">ScienceOnline2010 - what to do while there, what to do if you are not there but are interested? [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/"><img src="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/scienceonline2010logoMedium.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/" title="">ScienceOnline2010</a> is starting <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">in three days</a>! If you are not excited yet....well, I think you should be! And perhaps I can help you....with this post.

First, see the <a href="https://mistersugar.wufoo.com/reports/scienceonline2010-look-whos-coming/" title="">complete list of attendees</a>, or, if you want more details about everyone, browse through <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/category/blog/scienceonline2010/" title="">these introductory posts</a>. It is always good to know more about people you are about to spend two or three days with....

Then, check out the <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/Program/" title="">Program</a> to see which session in each time-slot you want to participate in. Go to individual session pages right now and join in the discussions, or ask questions. Start shaping the discussion online before it even starts offline.

This is an Unconference, meant to be highly participatory. The point of the meeting is to have conversations. The sessions' titles are meant to be topics for conversations, not lectures. The session moderators are supposed to keep the room engaged and on topic, not to drone on and on in a lecture. And then, there are all those informal conversations that happen in the hallways, and during additional events, and in the hotel lobby and at the hotel bar.....

What to do if you will not be physically present but want to follow? Graham Steel <a href="http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2010/01/scienceonline-2010-scio10-virtual.html" title="">has some ideas</a>, but there are plenty of ways to follow, and to some extent participate in the meeting.

This is an Unconference also in the sense that it is open. Not just that we allow, we actively encourage participants to cover the meeting online - not just sessions, but everything that happens there. The participants are encouraged to livetweet the meeting, to discuss it in various online places like FriendFeed and Facebook, and to blog about it: either liveblog, or a series of blog posts afterwards, or one big summary post at the end.

So, follow our <a href="https://twitter.com/scio10" title="">official Twitter account</a>, follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#search?q=scio10" title="">#scio10 hashtag on Twitter</a>, and follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#/list/BoraZ/scienceonline2010" title="">Twitter List that aggregates all the participants</a>. Subscribe to our <a href="http://friendfeed.com/scienceonline2010" title="">FriendFeed room</a> and our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118219988767" title="">Facebook event</a>. A lot of coverage will also be found on the <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/" title="">Science In The Triangle</a> site and blog.

All (except one) sessions will be recorded and the videos posted on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/scienceinthetriangle" title="">scienceinthetriangle</a> YouTube channel. You can also search YouTube for the #scio10 hashtag later on.

The sessions in rooms D and E will also be livestreamed on <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/TheRTP" title="">The RTP stream</a> - there are chatrooms on the side: use them to discuss in real time. We will have assigned "room monitors" who will check the chatrooms and, if they see an interesting question or comment, inject them into the real-world conversation in the room.

Likewise, these same sessions (in rooms D and E) will be livestremed into SecondLife on the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Research%20Triangle%20Park/128/129/25" title="">RTP Island</a>. Again, we will have someone keep an eye on the conversations there and may read out a good question out loud into the room.

We are also encouraging participants to make photographic, audio and video recordings of various events - not just sessions, but hallway conversations and other events. We hope they will interview each other. And then post all those audio and video files online and tag them all with #scio10 hashtag for easy search. We will collect everything from anywhere on the Web with that tag in one place - check the wiki (and our other communication channels) for more information when the meeting starts.

One way to warm up and get excited for the conference is to read some blog and media coverage from the previous years. Check out the collected links of coverage of the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/01/conference_blogging.php" title="">2007 meeting</a>, the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/science_blogging_conference_vi.php" title="">2008 meeting</a> and the <a href="http://www.scienceonline09.com/index.php/wiki/Blog_and_Media_Coverage/" title="">2009 meeting</a>. Of course, the 2010 meeting has already generated <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/BlogMedia_Coverage/" title="">quite a lot of coverage</a> (this time in reverse-chronological order) and we expect much more, so try to catch up (and add to it on your own blogs).

Finally, some of the past participants revealed much more about themselves in a series of interviews I conducted with them over the past two years. Many of them will be here again this year/week (marked with an asterisk) so you can see what they had to say about themselves, their science/Web projects, and about the conference itself:

The 2008 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/let_the_beagle_sail_interview.php" title="">Let The Beagle sail: Interview with Karen James</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/an_island_in_the_mountains_int.php" title="">An Island In the Mountains: Interview with James Hrynyshyn</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/bloggersinspaaaaace_interview.php" title="">Bloggers....In.....Spaaaaace! Interview with Talia Page</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/what_he_says_interview_with_de.php" title="">What He Says! Interview with Deepak Singh</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/per_holothuroidea_ad_astra_int.php" title="">Per Holothuroidea Ad Astra: Interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/how_was_it_for_you_interview_w.php" title="">How was it for you? Interview with Graham Steel</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/buffy_and_csi_in_the_writing_l.php" title="">Buffy and C.S.I in the Writing Lab: Interview with Jennifer Ouelette</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_viruses_to_viral_video_in.php" title="">From Viruses to Viral Video: Interview with Anna Kushnir</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/say_hi_if_you_see_him_running.php" title="">Say 'Hi' if you see him running - Interview with Dave Munger</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/a_different_kind_of_handshake.php" title="">A Different Kind of Handshake: Interview with Vanessa Woods</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/visualize_this_interview_with.php" title="">Visualize This! Interview with Moshe Pritsker</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_the_trenches_of_open_acce.php" title="">From the trenches of Open Access: Interview with Hemai Parthasarathy</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/openness_is_essential_freedom.php" title="">Openness is Essential Freedom: Interview with Vedran Vucic</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/fairerscience_in_an_unfair_wor.php" title="">FairerScience in an Unfair World: Interview with Patricia Campbell</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/our_seed_overlord_interview_wi.php" title="">Our Seed Overlord: Interview with Virginia Hughes</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_mite_hunting_a_dinosaur_th.php" title="">The mite hunting a dinosaur that could not catch a dog: Interview with Brian Switek</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_sirenian_call_interview_wi.php" title="">The Sirenian Call? Interview with Jennifer Jacquet</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/getting_publishing_up_to_speed.php" title="">Getting Publishing up to Speed: Interview with Bill Hooker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/riding_the_dinosaurs_toward_sc.php" title="">Riding the Dinosaurs toward Science Literacy: Interview with Gabrielle Lyon</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/survivorman_interview_with_aar.php" title="">Survivorman! Interview with Aaron Rowe</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/librarians_have_been_doing_it.php" title="">Librarians have been doing it for a hundred years! Interview with Christina Pikas</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/soapbox_for_puzzlesolving_inte.php" title="">Soapbox for Puzzle-Solving: Interview with Tom Levenson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/plos_it_rhymes_with_floss_inte.php" title="">PLoS, it rhymes with floss: Interview with Liz Allen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/isopodes_at_the_gate_interview.php" title="">Isopods At The Gate: Interview with Kevin Zelnio</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_future_is_here_and_it_is_b.php" title="">The Future is Here and it is Bright: Interview with Anne-Marie Hodge</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/science_librarian_in_a_confess.php" title="">The Warlord in the Library: Interview with John Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/kids_with_dr_in_front_of_their.php" title="">Kids with 'Dr' in front of their names: Interview with Ryan Somma</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_cool_aunt_of_the_sciencebl.php" title="">The Cool Aunt of the scienceblogging community: Interview with Janet Stemwedel</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/one_of_a_mind_interview_with_s.php" title="">One of a Mind: Interview with Shelley Batts</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/ebola_for_your_kids_interview.php" title="">Ebola, for your kids! Interview with Tara Smith</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/cuttingedge_communication_at_d.php" title="">Cutting-edge Communication at Duke: Interview with Karl Leif Bates</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/making_the_data_public_intervi.php" title="">Making the Data Public: Interview With Xan Gregg</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/watch_your_shoes_interview_wit.php" title="">Watch Your Shoes! Interview with Suzanne Franks</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/guarding_the_coral_reefs_like.php" title="">Guarding the Coral Reefs like a Moray Eel: Interview with Rick MacPherson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/start_them_early_interview_wit.php" title="">Start Them Early: Interview with Karen Ventii</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/think_of_a_dustfree_keypad_int.php" title="">Think of a Dust-Free Keypad: Interview with Rose Reis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/turning_the_tables_on_me_inter.php" title="">Turning the Tables on Me: Interview on the Confessions of a Science Librarian</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/shortly_after_hell_freezes_ove.php" title="">Shortly After Hell Freezes Over: Interview with Elisabeth Montegna</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/04/communicating_genomics_intervi.php" title="">Communicating Genomics: Interview with Kendall Morgan</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/removing_the_bricks_from_the_c.php" title="">Removing the Bricks from the Classroom Walls: Interview with David Warlick</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/doing_science_publicly_intervi.php" title="">Doing science publicly: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley</a>*

The 2009 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Sol Lederman</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Greg Laden</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with SciCurious</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Peter Lipson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Glendon Mellow</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with GG aka Dr.SkySkull</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Betul Kacar Arslan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Eva Amsen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with GrrrlScientist</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Miriam Goldstein</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Katherine Haxton</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stephanie Zvan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stacy Baker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bob O'Hara</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Djordje Jeremic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erica Tsai</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Elissa Hoffman</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Henry Gee</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Sam Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Russ Campbell</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danica Radovanovic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/clock_interview_john_hogenesch.php" title="">Clock Interview: John Hogenesch - genes, clocks, Web and ScienceOnline'09</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_interview_with_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bjoern Brembs</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erin Cline Davis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Carlos Hotta</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danielle Lee</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Victor Henning</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with John Wilbanks</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Kevin Emamy</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Arikia Millikan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_15.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_16.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Blake Stacey</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_17.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Daniel Brown</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/11/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_18.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Christian Casper</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/12/scienceonline09_-_an_interview.php" title="">ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Cameron Neylon</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/caryn_shechtman_a_blogger_succ.php" title="">Caryn Shechtman: A Blogger Success Story (an interview with Yours Truly)</a>*

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/narrowing-distance-using-e-learner.html">Narrowing the distance: using e-learner support to enhance the student experience - Patrick Kelly and Charlotte Stevens, EURODL</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/six-questions-for-entrepreneurial.html">Six Questions for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation in Distance (Online Learning) Education - Connie Reimers-Hild and James W. King, OJDLA</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/what-i-learned-from-teaching-adults.html">What I Learned from Teaching Adults Learning Online - Denise A. Blake, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://www.cnr.it/cnr/events/CnrEventi?IDn=2114">Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia</a>

Periodo: 05/02/2010

Città: Verona

Luogo: Fieragricola Verona, Bioenergy Expo, Centro Servizi dei Signori, Padd. 10/11

Oggetto: Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia

Abstract: In occasione del convegno, dove verranno presentati i risultati di ricerche e sperimentazioni della filiera bioenergetica, l’Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria del C.N.R. proporrà la terza edizione del Master in Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia<p> <p>Riferimenti: www.master-bioenergia.org

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/GuardianUnlimitedUK/Kenyas-nomads-welcome-mobile-schools/15547253/">Kenya's nomads welcome mobile schools</a>

Under a tree on a dusty plain in Kenya, a small group of young pastoralist children is sitting under the shade of a tree reciting a few words of English in unison.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/webinar-google-wave-in-higher-education.html">Webinar: Google Wave in Higher Education - January 27, the Sloan Consortium</a>

<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemshortdetail.cfm?item_id=3971&lang=en">E-Skills for a more innovative and competitive Europe</a>

Published Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:58 CET:

<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1597&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">I mass media possono svolgere un ruolo cruciale per l'eradicazione della povertà</a>

<a href="http://feeds.ilsole24ore.com/c/32276/f/438665/s/6ed08f1/l/0L0Silsole24ore0N0Cart0CSoleOnLine40CEconomia0J20Ae0J20ALavoro0C20A0A90C110CBanda0Elarga0Efondi0Econgelati0Bshtml0Duuid0Fe59ceaf80Ec9680E11de0E9d640Ef267f17dd1320GDocRulesView0FLibero/story01.htm">Banda larga: il governo congela 800 milioni</a>

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/infoday10/infoday_2010_en.htm">Lifelong Learning Infodays 2010 - Brussels 7 December: online registration closed</a>

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/NYTimes/Teach-Your-Teachers-Well/13825559/">Teach Your Teachers Well</a>

To fix our schools, the teaching programs need to be as dynamic as the young people we want to attract to the profession.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/AP/Obama-to-honor-young-inventors/14194219/">Obama to honor young inventors at science fair</a>

Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/A39F94CF5F3EC882C1257551003D248A?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 09/12/2009 - Teaching and learning in VET and lessons learned until today: policy and practice in Albania</a>

<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55757dba-e677-11de-98b1-00144feab49a.html">Schools' greener vision</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/cultivating-landscape-of-online-places.html">Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community - Mary Beth Rosson, et al; JETS</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/horton-hears-tweet-joanna-c-dunlap-and.html">Horton Hears a Tweet - Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal, EDUCAUSE Quarterly</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/10-ways-to-ensure-distance-online.html">10 Ways to Ensure Distance Online Learning Success - Cindy Wolfe, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/higher-education-costs-are-spiraling.html">Higher-education costs are spiraling out of control; quality leaves much to be desired. The solution: online learning - Michael Bassis, Business Week</a>

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/01/scienceonline2010_-_what_to_do.php">ScienceOnline2010 - what to do while there, what to do if you are not there but are interested? [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/"><img src="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/scienceonline2010logoMedium.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/" title="">ScienceOnline2010</a> is starting <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">in three days</a>! If you are not excited yet....well, I think you should be! And perhaps I can help you....with this post.

First, see the <a href="https://mistersugar.wufoo.com/reports/scienceonline2010-look-whos-coming/" title="">complete list of attendees</a>, or, if you want more details about everyone, browse through <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/category/blog/scienceonline2010/" title="">these introductory posts</a>. It is always good to know more about people you are about to spend two or three days with....

Then, check out the <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/Program/" title="">Program</a> to see which session in each time-slot you want to participate in. Go to individual session pages right now and join in the discussions, or ask questions. Start shaping the discussion online before it even starts offline.

This is an Unconference, meant to be highly participatory. The point of the meeting is to have conversations. The sessions' titles are meant to be topics for conversations, not lectures. The session moderators are supposed to keep the room engaged and on topic, not to drone on and on in a lecture. And then, there are all those informal conversations that happen in the hallways, and during additional events, and in the hotel lobby and at the hotel bar.....

What to do if you will not be physically present but want to follow? Graham Steel <a href="http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2010/01/scienceonline-2010-scio10-virtual.html" title="">has some ideas</a>, but there are plenty of ways to follow, and to some extent participate in the meeting.

This is an Unconference also in the sense that it is open. Not just that we allow, we actively encourage participants to cover the meeting online - not just sessions, but everything that happens there. The participants are encouraged to livetweet the meeting, to discuss it in various online places like FriendFeed and Facebook, and to blog about it: either liveblog, or a series of blog posts afterwards, or one big summary post at the end.

So, follow our <a href="https://twitter.com/scio10" title="">official Twitter account</a>, follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#search?q=scio10" title="">#scio10 hashtag on Twitter</a>, and follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#/list/BoraZ/scienceonline2010" title="">Twitter List that aggregates all the participants</a>. Subscribe to our <a href="http://friendfeed.com/scienceonline2010" title="">FriendFeed room</a> and our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118219988767" title="">Facebook event</a>. A lot of coverage will also be found on the <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/" title="">Science In The Triangle</a> site and blog.

All (except one) sessions will be recorded and the videos posted on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/scienceinthetriangle" title="">scienceinthetriangle</a> YouTube channel. You can also search YouTube for the #scio10 hashtag later on.

The sessions in rooms D and E will also be livestreamed on <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/TheRTP" title="">The RTP stream</a> - there are chatrooms on the side: use them to discuss in real time. We will have assigned "room monitors" who will check the chatrooms and, if they see an interesting question or comment, inject them into the real-world conversation in the room.

Likewise, these same sessions (in rooms D and E) will be livestremed into SecondLife on the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Research%20Triangle%20Park/128/129/25" title="">RTP Island</a>. Again, we will have someone keep an eye on the conversations there and may read out a good question out loud into the room.

We are also encouraging participants to make photographic, audio and video recordings of various events - not just sessions, but hallway conversations and other events. We hope they will interview each other. And then post all those audio and video files online and tag them all with #scio10 hashtag for easy search. We will collect everything from anywhere on the Web with that tag in one place - check the wiki (and our other communication channels) for more information when the meeting starts.

One way to warm up and get excited for the conference is to read some blog and media coverage from the previous years. Check out the collected links of coverage of the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/01/conference_blogging.php" title="">2007 meeting</a>, the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/science_blogging_conference_vi.php" title="">2008 meeting</a> and the <a href="http://www.scienceonline09.com/index.php/wiki/Blog_and_Media_Coverage/" title="">2009 meeting</a>. Of course, the 2010 meeting has already generated <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/BlogMedia_Coverage/" title="">quite a lot of coverage</a> (this time in reverse-chronological order) and we expect much more, so try to catch up (and add to it on your own blogs).

Finally, some of the past participants revealed much more about themselves in a series of interviews I conducted with them over the past two years. Many of them will be here again this year/week (marked with an asterisk) so you can see what they had to say about themselves, their science/Web projects, and about the conference itself:

The 2008 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/let_the_beagle_sail_interview.php" title="">Let The Beagle sail: Interview with Karen James</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/an_island_in_the_mountains_int.php" title="">An Island In the Mountains: Interview with James Hrynyshyn</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/bloggersinspaaaaace_interview.php" title="">Bloggers....In.....Spaaaaace! Interview with Talia Page</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/what_he_says_interview_with_de.php" title="">What He Says! Interview with Deepak Singh</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/per_holothuroidea_ad_astra_int.php" title="">Per Holothuroidea Ad Astra: Interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/how_was_it_for_you_interview_w.php" title="">How was it for you? Interview with Graham Steel</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/buffy_and_csi_in_the_writing_l.php" title="">Buffy and C.S.I in the Writing Lab: Interview with Jennifer Ouelette</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_viruses_to_viral_video_in.php" title="">From Viruses to Viral Video: Interview with Anna Kushnir</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/say_hi_if_you_see_him_running.php" title="">Say 'Hi' if you see him running - Interview with Dave Munger</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/a_different_kind_of_handshake.php" title="">A Different Kind of Handshake: Interview with Vanessa Woods</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/visualize_this_interview_with.php" title="">Visualize This! Interview with Moshe Pritsker</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_the_trenches_of_open_acce.php" title="">From the trenches of Open Access: Interview with Hemai Parthasarathy</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/openness_is_essential_freedom.php" title="">Openness is Essential Freedom: Interview with Vedran Vucic</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/fairerscience_in_an_unfair_wor.php" title="">FairerScience in an Unfair World: Interview with Patricia Campbell</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/our_seed_overlord_interview_wi.php" title="">Our Seed Overlord: Interview with Virginia Hughes</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_mite_hunting_a_dinosaur_th.php" title="">The mite hunting a dinosaur that could not catch a dog: Interview with Brian Switek</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_sirenian_call_interview_wi.php" title="">The Sirenian Call? Interview with Jennifer Jacquet</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/getting_publishing_up_to_speed.php" title="">Getting Publishing up to Speed: Interview with Bill Hooker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/riding_the_dinosaurs_toward_sc.php" title="">Riding the Dinosaurs toward Science Literacy: Interview with Gabrielle Lyon</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/survivorman_interview_with_aar.php" title="">Survivorman! Interview with Aaron Rowe</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/librarians_have_been_doing_it.php" title="">Librarians have been doing it for a hundred years! Interview with Christina Pikas</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/soapbox_for_puzzlesolving_inte.php" title="">Soapbox for Puzzle-Solving: Interview with Tom Levenson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/plos_it_rhymes_with_floss_inte.php" title="">PLoS, it rhymes with floss: Interview with Liz Allen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/isopodes_at_the_gate_interview.php" title="">Isopods At The Gate: Interview with Kevin Zelnio</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_future_is_here_and_it_is_b.php" title="">The Future is Here and it is Bright: Interview with Anne-Marie Hodge</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/science_librarian_in_a_confess.php" title="">The Warlord in the Library: Interview with John Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/kids_with_dr_in_front_of_their.php" title="">Kids with 'Dr' in front of their names: Interview with Ryan Somma</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_cool_aunt_of_the_sciencebl.php" title="">The Cool Aunt of the scienceblogging community: Interview with Janet Stemwedel</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/one_of_a_mind_interview_with_s.php" title="">One of a Mind: Interview with Shelley Batts</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/ebola_for_your_kids_interview.php" title="">Ebola, for your kids! Interview with Tara Smith</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/cuttingedge_communication_at_d.php" title="">Cutting-edge Communication at Duke: Interview with Karl Leif Bates</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/making_the_data_public_intervi.php" title="">Making the Data Public: Interview With Xan Gregg</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/watch_your_shoes_interview_wit.php" title="">Watch Your Shoes! Interview with Suzanne Franks</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/guarding_the_coral_reefs_like.php" title="">Guarding the Coral Reefs like a Moray Eel: Interview with Rick MacPherson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/start_them_early_interview_wit.php" title="">Start Them Early: Interview with Karen Ventii</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/think_of_a_dustfree_keypad_int.php" title="">Think of a Dust-Free Keypad: Interview with Rose Reis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/turning_the_tables_on_me_inter.php" title="">Turning the Tables on Me: Interview on the Confessions of a Science Librarian</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/shortly_after_hell_freezes_ove.php" title="">Shortly After Hell Freezes Over: Interview with Elisabeth Montegna</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/04/communicating_genomics_intervi.php" title="">Communicating Genomics: Interview with Kendall Morgan</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/removing_the_bricks_from_the_c.php" title="">Removing the Bricks from the Classroom Walls: Interview with David Warlick</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/doing_science_publicly_intervi.php" title="">Doing science publicly: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley</a>*

The 2009 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Sol Lederman</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Greg Laden</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with SciCurious</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Peter Lipson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Glendon Mellow</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with GG aka Dr.SkySkull</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Betul Kacar Arslan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Eva Amsen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with GrrrlScientist</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Miriam Goldstein</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Katherine Haxton</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stephanie Zvan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stacy Baker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bob O'Hara</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Djordje Jeremic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erica Tsai</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Elissa Hoffman</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Henry Gee</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Sam Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Russ Campbell</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danica Radovanovic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/clock_interview_john_hogenesch.php" title="">Clock Interview: John Hogenesch - genes, clocks, Web and ScienceOnline'09</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_interview_with_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bjoern Brembs</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erin Cline Davis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Carlos Hotta</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danielle Lee</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Victor Henning</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with John Wilbanks</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Kevin Emamy</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Arikia Millikan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_15.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_16.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Blake Stacey</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_17.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Daniel Brown</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/11/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_18.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Christian Casper</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/12/scienceonline09_-_an_interview.php" title="">ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Cameron Neylon</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/caryn_shechtman_a_blogger_succ.php" title="">Caryn Shechtman: A Blogger Success Story (an interview with Yours Truly)</a>*

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/narrowing-distance-using-e-learner.html">Narrowing the distance: using e-learner support to enhance the student experience - Patrick Kelly and Charlotte Stevens, EURODL</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/six-questions-for-entrepreneurial.html">Six Questions for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation in Distance (Online Learning) Education - Connie Reimers-Hild and James W. King, OJDLA</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/what-i-learned-from-teaching-adults.html">What I Learned from Teaching Adults Learning Online - Denise A. Blake, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://www.cnr.it/cnr/events/CnrEventi?IDn=2114">Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia</a>

Periodo: 05/02/2010

Città: Verona

Luogo: Fieragricola Verona, Bioenergy Expo, Centro Servizi dei Signori, Padd. 10/11

Oggetto: Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia

Abstract: In occasione del convegno, dove verranno presentati i risultati di ricerche e sperimentazioni della filiera bioenergetica, l’Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria del C.N.R. proporrà la terza edizione del Master in Gestione delle biomasse e dei processi per la produzione di energia<p> <p>Riferimenti: www.master-bioenergia.org

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/GuardianUnlimitedUK/Kenyas-nomads-welcome-mobile-schools/15547253/">Kenya's nomads welcome mobile schools</a>

Under a tree on a dusty plain in Kenya, a small group of young pastoralist children is sitting under the shade of a tree reciting a few words of English in unison.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/webinar-google-wave-in-higher-education.html">Webinar: Google Wave in Higher Education - January 27, the Sloan Consortium</a>

<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemshortdetail.cfm?item_id=3971&lang=en">E-Skills for a more innovative and competitive Europe</a>

Published Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:58 CET:

<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1597&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">I mass media possono svolgere un ruolo cruciale per l'eradicazione della povertà</a>

<a href="http://feeds.ilsole24ore.com/c/32276/f/438665/s/6ed08f1/l/0L0Silsole24ore0N0Cart0CSoleOnLine40CEconomia0J20Ae0J20ALavoro0C20A0A90C110CBanda0Elarga0Efondi0Econgelati0Bshtml0Duuid0Fe59ceaf80Ec9680E11de0E9d640Ef267f17dd1320GDocRulesView0FLibero/story01.htm">Banda larga: il governo congela 800 milioni</a>

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/infoday10/infoday_2010_en.htm">Lifelong Learning Infodays 2010 - Brussels 7 December: online registration closed</a>

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/NYTimes/Teach-Your-Teachers-Well/13825559/">Teach Your Teachers Well</a>

To fix our schools, the teaching programs need to be as dynamic as the young people we want to attract to the profession.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/AP/Obama-to-honor-young-inventors/14194219/">Obama to honor young inventors at science fair</a>

Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/A39F94CF5F3EC882C1257551003D248A?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 09/12/2009 - Teaching and learning in VET and lessons learned until today: policy and practice in Albania</a>

<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55757dba-e677-11de-98b1-00144feab49a.html">Schools' greener vision</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/cultivating-landscape-of-online-places.html">Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community - Mary Beth Rosson, et al; JETS</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/horton-hears-tweet-joanna-c-dunlap-and.html">Horton Hears a Tweet - Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal, EDUCAUSE Quarterly</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/10-ways-to-ensure-distance-online.html">10 Ways to Ensure Distance Online Learning Success - Cindy Wolfe, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/higher-education-costs-are-spiraling.html">Higher-education costs are spiraling out of control; quality leaves much to be desired. The solution: online learning - Michael Bassis, Business Week</a>

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/01/scienceonline2010_-_what_to_do.php">ScienceOnline2010 - what to do while there, what to do if you are not there but are interested? [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/"><img src="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/scienceonline2010logoMedium.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/" title="">ScienceOnline2010</a> is starting <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">in three days</a>! If you are not excited yet....well, I think you should be! And perhaps I can help you....with this post.

First, see the <a href="https://mistersugar.wufoo.com/reports/scienceonline2010-look-whos-coming/" title="">complete list of attendees</a>, or, if you want more details about everyone, browse through <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/category/blog/scienceonline2010/" title="">these introductory posts</a>. It is always good to know more about people you are about to spend two or three days with....

Then, check out the <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/Program/" title="">Program</a> to see which session in each time-slot you want to participate in. Go to individual session pages right now and join in the discussions, or ask questions. Start shaping the discussion online before it even starts offline.

This is an Unconference, meant to be highly participatory. The point of the meeting is to have conversations. The sessions' titles are meant to be topics for conversations, not lectures. The session moderators are supposed to keep the room engaged and on topic, not to drone on and on in a lecture. And then, there are all those informal conversations that happen in the hallways, and during additional events, and in the hotel lobby and at the hotel bar.....

What to do if you will not be physically present but want to follow? Graham Steel <a href="http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2010/01/scienceonline-2010-scio10-virtual.html" title="">has some ideas</a>, but there are plenty of ways to follow, and to some extent participate in the meeting.

This is an Unconference also in the sense that it is open. Not just that we allow, we actively encourage participants to cover the meeting online - not just sessions, but everything that happens there. The participants are encouraged to livetweet the meeting, to discuss it in various online places like FriendFeed and Facebook, and to blog about it: either liveblog, or a series of blog posts afterwards, or one big summary post at the end.

So, follow our <a href="https://twitter.com/scio10" title="">official Twitter account</a>, follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#search?q=scio10" title="">#scio10 hashtag on Twitter</a>, and follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#/list/BoraZ/scienceonline2010" title="">Twitter List that aggregates all the participants</a>. Subscribe to our <a href="http://friendfeed.com/scienceonline2010" title="">FriendFeed room</a> and our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118219988767" title="">Facebook event</a>. A lot of coverage will also be found on the <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/" title="">Science In The Triangle</a> site and blog.

All (except one) sessions will be recorded and the videos posted on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/scienceinthetriangle" title="">scienceinthetriangle</a> YouTube channel. You can also search YouTube for the #scio10 hashtag later on.

The sessions in rooms D and E will also be livestreamed on <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/TheRTP" title="">The RTP stream</a> - there are chatrooms on the side: use them to discuss in real time. We will have assigned "room monitors" who will check the chatrooms and, if they see an interesting question or comment, inject them into the real-world conversation in the room.

Likewise, these same sessions (in rooms D and E) will be livestremed into SecondLife on the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Research%20Triangle%20Park/128/129/25" title="">RTP Island</a>. Again, we will have someone keep an eye on the conversations there and may read out a good question out loud into the room.

We are also encouraging participants to make photographic, audio and video recordings of various events - not just sessions, but hallway conversations and other events. We hope they will interview each other. And then post all those audio and video files online and tag them all with #scio10 hashtag for easy search. We will collect everything from anywhere on the Web with that tag in one place - check the wiki (and our other communication channels) for more information when the meeting starts.

One way to warm up and get excited for the conference is to read some blog and media coverage from the previous years. Check out the collected links of coverage of the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/01/conference_blogging.php" title="">2007 meeting</a>, the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/science_blogging_conference_vi.php" title="">2008 meeting</a> and the <a href="http://www.scienceonline09.com/index.php/wiki/Blog_and_Media_Coverage/" title="">2009 meeting</a>. Of course, the 2010 meeting has already generated <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/BlogMedia_Coverage/" title="">quite a lot of coverage</a> (this time in reverse-chronological order) and we expect much more, so try to catch up (and add to it on your own blogs).

Finally, some of the past participants revealed much more about themselves in a series of interviews I conducted with them over the past two years. Many of them will be here again this year/week (marked with an asterisk) so you can see what they had to say about themselves, their science/Web projects, and about the conference itself:

The 2008 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/let_the_beagle_sail_interview.php" title="">Let The Beagle sail: Interview with Karen James</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/an_island_in_the_mountains_int.php" title="">An Island In the Mountains: Interview with James Hrynyshyn</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/bloggersinspaaaaace_interview.php" title="">Bloggers....In.....Spaaaaace! Interview with Talia Page</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/what_he_says_interview_with_de.php" title="">What He Says! Interview with Deepak Singh</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/per_holothuroidea_ad_astra_int.php" title="">Per Holothuroidea Ad Astra: Interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/how_was_it_for_you_interview_w.php" title="">How was it for you? Interview with Graham Steel</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/buffy_and_csi_in_the_writing_l.php" title="">Buffy and C.S.I in the Writing Lab: Interview with Jennifer Ouelette</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_viruses_to_viral_video_in.php" title="">From Viruses to Viral Video: Interview with Anna Kushnir</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/say_hi_if_you_see_him_running.php" title="">Say 'Hi' if you see him running - Interview with Dave Munger</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/a_different_kind_of_handshake.php" title="">A Different Kind of Handshake: Interview with Vanessa Woods</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/visualize_this_interview_with.php" title="">Visualize This! Interview with Moshe Pritsker</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_the_trenches_of_open_acce.php" title="">From the trenches of Open Access: Interview with Hemai Parthasarathy</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/openness_is_essential_freedom.php" title="">Openness is Essential Freedom: Interview with Vedran Vucic</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/fairerscience_in_an_unfair_wor.php" title="">FairerScience in an Unfair World: Interview with Patricia Campbell</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/our_seed_overlord_interview_wi.php" title="">Our Seed Overlord: Interview with Virginia Hughes</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_mite_hunting_a_dinosaur_th.php" title="">The mite hunting a dinosaur that could not catch a dog: Interview with Brian Switek</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_sirenian_call_interview_wi.php" title="">The Sirenian Call? Interview with Jennifer Jacquet</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/getting_publishing_up_to_speed.php" title="">Getting Publishing up to Speed: Interview with Bill Hooker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/riding_the_dinosaurs_toward_sc.php" title="">Riding the Dinosaurs toward Science Literacy: Interview with Gabrielle Lyon</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/survivorman_interview_with_aar.php" title="">Survivorman! Interview with Aaron Rowe</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/librarians_have_been_doing_it.php" title="">Librarians have been doing it for a hundred years! Interview with Christina Pikas</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/soapbox_for_puzzlesolving_inte.php" title="">Soapbox for Puzzle-Solving: Interview with Tom Levenson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/plos_it_rhymes_with_floss_inte.php" title="">PLoS, it rhymes with floss: Interview with Liz Allen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/isopodes_at_the_gate_interview.php" title="">Isopods At The Gate: Interview with Kevin Zelnio</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_future_is_here_and_it_is_b.php" title="">The Future is Here and it is Bright: Interview with Anne-Marie Hodge</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/science_librarian_in_a_confess.php" title="">The Warlord in the Library: Interview with John Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/kids_with_dr_in_front_of_their.php" title="">Kids with 'Dr' in front of their names: Interview with Ryan Somma</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_cool_aunt_of_the_sciencebl.php" title="">The Cool Aunt of the scienceblogging community: Interview with Janet Stemwedel</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/one_of_a_mind_interview_with_s.php" title="">One of a Mind: Interview with Shelley Batts</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/ebola_for_your_kids_interview.php" title="">Ebola, for your kids! Interview with Tara Smith</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/cuttingedge_communication_at_d.php" title="">Cutting-edge Communication at Duke: Interview with Karl Leif Bates</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/making_the_data_public_intervi.php" title="">Making the Data Public: Interview With Xan Gregg</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/watch_your_shoes_interview_wit.php" title="">Watch Your Shoes! Interview with Suzanne Franks</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/guarding_the_coral_reefs_like.php" title="">Guarding the Coral Reefs like a Moray Eel: Interview with Rick MacPherson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/start_them_early_interview_wit.php" title="">Start Them Early: Interview with Karen Ventii</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/think_of_a_dustfree_keypad_int.php" title="">Think of a Dust-Free Keypad: Interview with Rose Reis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/turning_the_tables_on_me_inter.php" title="">Turning the Tables on Me: Interview on the Confessions of a Science Librarian</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/shortly_after_hell_freezes_ove.php" title="">Shortly After Hell Freezes Over: Interview with Elisabeth Montegna</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/04/communicating_genomics_intervi.php" title="">Communicating Genomics: Interview with Kendall Morgan</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/removing_the_bricks_from_the_c.php" title="">Removing the Bricks from the Classroom Walls: Interview with David Warlick</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/doing_science_publicly_intervi.php" title="">Doing science publicly: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley</a>*

The 2009 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Sol Lederman</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Greg Laden</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with SciCurious</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Peter Lipson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_interview_with_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Glendon Mellow</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_1.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with GG aka Dr.SkySkull</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Betul Kacar Arslan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Eva Amsen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with GrrrlScientist</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Miriam Goldstein</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Katherine Haxton</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stephanie Zvan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Stacy Baker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bob O'Hara</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_interview_with_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Djordje Jeremic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_2.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erica Tsai</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_3.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Elissa Hoffman</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_4.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - Interview with Henry Gee</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_5.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Sam Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/07/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_6.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Russ Campbell</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_7.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danica Radovanovic</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/clock_interview_john_hogenesch.php" title="">Clock Interview: John Hogenesch - genes, clocks, Web and ScienceOnline'09</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_interview_with_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09: Interview with Bjoern Brembs</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_8.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Erin Cline Davis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_9.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Carlos Hotta</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/08/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_10.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Danielle Lee</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_11.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Victor Henning</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_12.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with John Wilbanks</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/09/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_13.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Kevin Emamy</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_14.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Arikia Millikan</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_15.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_16.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Blake Stacey</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_17.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Daniel Brown</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/11/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_18.php" title="">ScienceOnline'09 - interview with Christian Casper</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/12/scienceonline09_-_an_interview.php" title="">ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Cameron Neylon</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/06/caryn_shechtman_a_blogger_succ.php" title="">Caryn Shechtman: A Blogger Success Story (an interview with Yours Truly)</a>*

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/narrowing-distance-using-e-learner.html">Narrowing the distance: using e-learner support to enhance the student experience - Patrick Kelly and Charlotte Stevens, EURODL</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/six-questions-for-entrepreneurial.html">Six Questions for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation in Distance (Online Learning) Education - Connie Reimers-Hild and James W. King, OJDLA</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2010/01/what-i-learned-from-teaching-adults.html">What I Learned from Teaching Adults Learning Online - Denise A. Blake, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1597&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">I mass media possono svolgere un ruolo cruciale per l'eradicazione della povertà</a>

<a href="http://feeds.ilsole24ore.com/c/32276/f/438665/s/6ed08f1/l/0L0Silsole24ore0N0Cart0CSoleOnLine40CEconomia0J20Ae0J20ALavoro0C20A0A90C110CBanda0Elarga0Efondi0Econgelati0Bshtml0Duuid0Fe59ceaf80Ec9680E11de0E9d640Ef267f17dd1320GDocRulesView0FLibero/story01.htm">Banda larga: il governo congela 800 milioni</a>

<a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/infoday10/infoday_2010_en.htm">Lifelong Learning Infodays 2010 - Brussels 7 December: online registration closed</a>

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/NYTimes/Teach-Your-Teachers-Well/13825559/">Teach Your Teachers Well</a>

To fix our schools, the teaching programs need to be as dynamic as the young people we want to attract to the profession.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.mywire.com/a/AP/Obama-to-honor-young-inventors/14194219/">Obama to honor young inventors at science fair</a>

Hey kids, grab those beakers and Petri dishes, the White House is going to hold a science fair.

(The full text of this article is available free)

<a href="http://www.etf.europa.eu/web.nsf/pages/Events_EN?OpenDocument&emb=http://www.etf.europa.eu/EventsMgmt.nsf/(RSS)/A39F94CF5F3EC882C1257551003D248A?OpenDocument&LAN=EN">Event: 09/12/2009 - Teaching and learning in VET and lessons learned until today: policy and practice in Albania</a>

<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55757dba-e677-11de-98b1-00144feab49a.html">Schools' greener vision</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/cultivating-landscape-of-online-places.html">Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community - Mary Beth Rosson, et al; JETS</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/horton-hears-tweet-joanna-c-dunlap-and.html">Horton Hears a Tweet - Joanna C. Dunlap and Patrick R. Lowenthal, EDUCAUSE Quarterly</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/10-ways-to-ensure-distance-online.html">10 Ways to Ensure Distance Online Learning Success - Cindy Wolfe, eLearn Magazine</a>

<a href="http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/2009/12/higher-education-costs-are-spiraling.html">Higher-education costs are spiraling out of control; quality leaves much to be desired. The solution: online learning - Michael Bassis, Business Week</a>

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2010/01/scienceonline2010_-_what_to_do.php">ScienceOnline2010 - what to do while there, what to do if you are not there but are interested? [A Blog Around The Clock]</a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/"><img src="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/scienceonline2010logoMedium.jpg"></a>

<a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/" title="">ScienceOnline2010</a> is starting <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/" title="">in three days</a>! If you are not excited yet....well, I think you should be! And perhaps I can help you....with this post.

First, see the <a href="https://mistersugar.wufoo.com/reports/scienceonline2010-look-whos-coming/" title="">complete list of attendees</a>, or, if you want more details about everyone, browse through <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/category/blog/scienceonline2010/" title="">these introductory posts</a>. It is always good to know more about people you are about to spend two or three days with....

Then, check out the <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/Program/" title="">Program</a> to see which session in each time-slot you want to participate in. Go to individual session pages right now and join in the discussions, or ask questions. Start shaping the discussion online before it even starts offline.

This is an Unconference, meant to be highly participatory. The point of the meeting is to have conversations. The sessions' titles are meant to be topics for conversations, not lectures. The session moderators are supposed to keep the room engaged and on topic, not to drone on and on in a lecture. And then, there are all those informal conversations that happen in the hallways, and during additional events, and in the hotel lobby and at the hotel bar.....

What to do if you will not be physically present but want to follow? Graham Steel <a href="http://mcblawg.blogspot.com/2010/01/scienceonline-2010-scio10-virtual.html" title="">has some ideas</a>, but there are plenty of ways to follow, and to some extent participate in the meeting.

This is an Unconference also in the sense that it is open. Not just that we allow, we actively encourage participants to cover the meeting online - not just sessions, but everything that happens there. The participants are encouraged to livetweet the meeting, to discuss it in various online places like FriendFeed and Facebook, and to blog about it: either liveblog, or a series of blog posts afterwards, or one big summary post at the end.

So, follow our <a href="https://twitter.com/scio10" title="">official Twitter account</a>, follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#search?q=scio10" title="">#scio10 hashtag on Twitter</a>, and follow the <a href="https://twitter.com/#/list/BoraZ/scienceonline2010" title="">Twitter List that aggregates all the participants</a>. Subscribe to our <a href="http://friendfeed.com/scienceonline2010" title="">FriendFeed room</a> and our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118219988767" title="">Facebook event</a>. A lot of coverage will also be found on the <a href="http://scienceinthetriangle.org/" title="">Science In The Triangle</a> site and blog.

All (except one) sessions will be recorded and the videos posted on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/scienceinthetriangle" title="">scienceinthetriangle</a> YouTube channel. You can also search YouTube for the #scio10 hashtag later on.

The sessions in rooms D and E will also be livestreamed on <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/TheRTP" title="">The RTP stream</a> - there are chatrooms on the side: use them to discuss in real time. We will have assigned "room monitors" who will check the chatrooms and, if they see an interesting question or comment, inject them into the real-world conversation in the room.

Likewise, these same sessions (in rooms D and E) will be livestremed into SecondLife on the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Research%20Triangle%20Park/128/129/25" title="">RTP Island</a>. Again, we will have someone keep an eye on the conversations there and may read out a good question out loud into the room.

We are also encouraging participants to make photographic, audio and video recordings of various events - not just sessions, but hallway conversations and other events. We hope they will interview each other. And then post all those audio and video files online and tag them all with #scio10 hashtag for easy search. We will collect everything from anywhere on the Web with that tag in one place - check the wiki (and our other communication channels) for more information when the meeting starts.

One way to warm up and get excited for the conference is to read some blog and media coverage from the previous years. Check out the collected links of coverage of the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/01/conference_blogging.php" title="">2007 meeting</a>, the <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/science_blogging_conference_vi.php" title="">2008 meeting</a> and the <a href="http://www.scienceonline09.com/index.php/wiki/Blog_and_Media_Coverage/" title="">2009 meeting</a>. Of course, the 2010 meeting has already generated <a href="http://www.scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki/BlogMedia_Coverage/" title="">quite a lot of coverage</a> (this time in reverse-chronological order) and we expect much more, so try to catch up (and add to it on your own blogs).

Finally, some of the past participants revealed much more about themselves in a series of interviews I conducted with them over the past two years. Many of them will be here again this year/week (marked with an asterisk) so you can see what they had to say about themselves, their science/Web projects, and about the conference itself:

The 2008 meeting:

<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/let_the_beagle_sail_interview.php" title="">Let The Beagle sail: Interview with Karen James</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/an_island_in_the_mountains_int.php" title="">An Island In the Mountains: Interview with James Hrynyshyn</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/bloggersinspaaaaace_interview.php" title="">Bloggers....In.....Spaaaaace! Interview with Talia Page</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/01/what_he_says_interview_with_de.php" title="">What He Says! Interview with Deepak Singh</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/per_holothuroidea_ad_astra_int.php" title="">Per Holothuroidea Ad Astra: Interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/how_was_it_for_you_interview_w.php" title="">How was it for you? Interview with Graham Steel</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/buffy_and_csi_in_the_writing_l.php" title="">Buffy and C.S.I in the Writing Lab: Interview with Jennifer Ouelette</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_viruses_to_viral_video_in.php" title="">From Viruses to Viral Video: Interview with Anna Kushnir</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/say_hi_if_you_see_him_running.php" title="">Say 'Hi' if you see him running - Interview with Dave Munger</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/a_different_kind_of_handshake.php" title="">A Different Kind of Handshake: Interview with Vanessa Woods</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/visualize_this_interview_with.php" title="">Visualize This! Interview with Moshe Pritsker</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/from_the_trenches_of_open_acce.php" title="">From the trenches of Open Access: Interview with Hemai Parthasarathy</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/openness_is_essential_freedom.php" title="">Openness is Essential Freedom: Interview with Vedran Vucic</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/fairerscience_in_an_unfair_wor.php" title="">FairerScience in an Unfair World: Interview with Patricia Campbell</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/our_seed_overlord_interview_wi.php" title="">Our Seed Overlord: Interview with Virginia Hughes</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_mite_hunting_a_dinosaur_th.php" title="">The mite hunting a dinosaur that could not catch a dog: Interview with Brian Switek</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_sirenian_call_interview_wi.php" title="">The Sirenian Call? Interview with Jennifer Jacquet</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/getting_publishing_up_to_speed.php" title="">Getting Publishing up to Speed: Interview with Bill Hooker</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/riding_the_dinosaurs_toward_sc.php" title="">Riding the Dinosaurs toward Science Literacy: Interview with Gabrielle Lyon</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/survivorman_interview_with_aar.php" title="">Survivorman! Interview with Aaron Rowe</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/librarians_have_been_doing_it.php" title="">Librarians have been doing it for a hundred years! Interview with Christina Pikas</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/soapbox_for_puzzlesolving_inte.php" title="">Soapbox for Puzzle-Solving: Interview with Tom Levenson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/plos_it_rhymes_with_floss_inte.php" title="">PLoS, it rhymes with floss: Interview with Liz Allen</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/isopodes_at_the_gate_interview.php" title="">Isopods At The Gate: Interview with Kevin Zelnio</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_future_is_here_and_it_is_b.php" title="">The Future is Here and it is Bright: Interview with Anne-Marie Hodge</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/science_librarian_in_a_confess.php" title="">The Warlord in the Library: Interview with John Dupuis</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/kids_with_dr_in_front_of_their.php" title="">Kids with 'Dr' in front of their names: Interview with Ryan Somma</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/the_cool_aunt_of_the_sciencebl.php" title="">The Cool Aunt of the scienceblogging community: Interview with Janet Stemwedel</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/one_of_a_mind_interview_with_s.php" title="">One of a Mind: Interview with Shelley Batts</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/ebola_for_your_kids_interview.php" title="">Ebola, for your kids! Interview with Tara Smith</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/02/cuttingedge_communication_at_d.php" title="">Cutting-edge Communication at Duke: Interview with Karl Leif Bates</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/making_the_data_public_intervi.php" title="">Making the Data Public: Interview With Xan Gregg</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/watch_your_shoes_interview_wit.php" title="">Watch Your Shoes! Interview with Suzanne Franks</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/guarding_the_coral_reefs_like.php" title="">Guarding the Coral Reefs like a Moray Eel: Interview with Rick MacPherson</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/start_them_early_interview_wit.php" title="">Start Them Early: Interview with Karen Ventii</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/think_of_a_dustfree_keypad_int.php" title="">Think of a Dust-Free Keypad: Interview with Rose Reis</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/turning_the_tables_on_me_inter.php" title="">Turning the Tables on Me: Interview on the Confessions of a Science Librarian</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/03/shortly_after_hell_freezes_ove.php" title="">Shortly After Hell Freezes Over: Interview with Elisabeth Montegna</a>*
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/04/communicating_genomics_intervi.php" title="">Communicating Genomics: Interview with Kendall Morgan</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/removing_the_bricks_from_the_c.php" title="">Removing the Bricks from the Classroom Walls: Interview with David Warlick</a>
<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/05/doing_science_publicly_intervi.php" title="">Doing science publicly: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley</a>*