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We hope everyone who attended Science Online London over the weekend had as much fun as we did. The two-day event at the British Library certainly highlighted some intriguing and stimulating issues. Reports in various media are beginning to appear, and we’ll use this page as a central location for compiling links.
Please highlight omissions in the comments below, and we’ll update the list.
Blog Posts
- General overview Pat Heslop-Harrison at AoB Blog
- General overview Katie Fraser on UoL Library blog (covers three breakout sessions and summarises her views of the conference).
- General overview Julia Heathcote at Stages of Succession
- General overview Nick Morris at BGM Blog.
- General overview AJ Caan at Science of the Invisible
- General overview Katherine Haxton at Endless Possibilities
- General overview Frank Norman at Trading Knowledge
- Misuse of Powerpoint Pat Heslop-Harrison at AoB Blog
- Quotes Eva Amsen at Expression Patterns
- Use of Twitter Martin Fenner at Gobbledygook
- Panel 1 (David Dobbs, Alice Bell, Ed Yong and Martin Robbins) (1) Taking Science Journalism Upstream – Alice Bell on Through The Looking Glass.* (2)* Rebooting Science Journalism 2: Rebooting Harder – Ed Yong on Not Exactly Rocket Science.
- Breakout 5 (Sophia Collins, Shane McCracken) I’m a Scientist Get Me Out of Here by Sophia Collins.
- Breakout 8 (Ian Mulvany, Michael Habib, Richard Wallis, Chris Taylor) Connecting Scientific Resources, Slides – Ian Mulvany on Direct Graph.
- Keynote 2 (Aleks Krotoski) Video on McBlawg 3.0
- Breakout 10 (David McCandless) Cultures Clash Over Infographics – Adam Tinworth on One Man And His Blog
- Breakout 12 (Geoff Bilder, Gudmundur Thorisson, Martin Fenner) ORCID as unique author identifier: what is it good for and should we worry or be happy? – Martin Fenner on Gobbledygook.
- Unconference (Alok Jha, Ed Yong, John Timmers, Julia Heathcote Anderson) (1) Bloggers, Commenters and the Reputation Game – Adam Tinworth on One Man And His Blog. (2) Engaging People Online – Ed Yong on Not Exactly Rocket Science.
- Unconference (Ian Mulvany) Science Scraping with YQL – Ian Mulvany on Direct Graph.
- Unconference (Theo Bloom, Brian Derby and Phil Lord) Warning: Misusing the Journal Impact Factor Can Damage Your Science! Cameron Neylon on Science in the Open.
- Unconference (Jeffrey Lancaster) Connecting to the User List of wants, by Jeffrey Lancaster
- Panel Discussion 3 (Michael Jubb, Bob O’Hara, Richard Grant, Rob Procter) On Web 2.0 – Richard Grant on Confessions of a (Former) Lab Rat
Photos
- Flickr group for Science Online London 2010
- From the Fringe trip to Diamond Light Source via Phil Roberts.
Mashups
- Cartoon inspired by Fringe event at Diamond Light Source, by Viktor Poór
- Visualisation of most-followed #Solo10 tweeters
- Wordle of SOLO10 tweets by Simon Cockell on Fuzzier Logic.
Video
- While there was no official video recording of the conference, Mark Hahnel and Graham Steele personally captured all the main auditorium talks and some of the breakouts. An archive of those videos can be found on USTREAM, and the full set have now been presented in order here.
- And here’s a link to the remarkable video shown by Evan Harris in his keynote. In it, a Parkinson’s sufferer controls his severe shaking through use of a brain implant. Evan used this example of medical technology to convince policy makers of the need for animal research.
- Finally, the video show by Aleks Krotoski on the British Library’s forthcoming Growing Knowledge exhibition can be found here.
- After initial confusion, the official hashtag for the conference resolved as #solo10. All 3000+ tweets to this tag from 3/4 September have been archived in PDF form here. The hastag was the second most popular in London for 3 September.
- Twitter list of solo10 attendees
- Twapperkeeper Archive of all tweets (currently at around 5800!)