You might not be aware of this, but there will be a Science Online London 2010! It is being scheduled as I write and will be held at the British Library on 3-4 September 2010, and YES! I will be there! (I am so excited!) As a blog reader, you are eagerly invited to suggestion session topics on the SciOnlineLondon wiki. Who knows? Maybe I'll be so lucky as to be asked to speak! (Yes, I would love that!)
Here's a topic that was suggested by my featherless slave: why SHOULD science blog writers be provided access to embargoed materials -- just like [OMG!!] FUR REALZ journalists! (Especially when lots of people read their bloody blogs!)
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