<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 21px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jason Morrison pointed me to an interesting blog post by technologist John Udell called
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It's an interesting and short post about his perception of the lack of interconnects between the long-term "academic" discussions that are conducted basically by publishing primary literature articles and the discussions about and relating to the science published via blogs and more domestic sources like mainstream news websites. Quote:
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"The mainstream vector was a New York Times magazine story on obesity. It got to the blogosophere by way of a Wired News story. But the original Nature Biotechnology article mentioned in the Wired story was linked nowhere that I could find."
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check it out. It's insightful and asks some good questions. Also, did we send anyone to the recent Science Blogging conference in North Carolina this weekend?
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