I'm sitting next to Scoble on the Lightning Tools panel at Northern Voice right now. I just demoed Webjay, and realize I forgot to mention you can put a player on your weblog using the Webjay Wizard.
Visitors to your blog can then simply click the play button to listen to
your selections, and steal the songs they like for their own playlists by right-clicking the
player itself. Check out my blog's front page to try it!
Just before, I did the panel on blogging in with Stephen, Laura, Cyprien, and Bryan (who blogged the whole thing in real time,
I don't know how on Earth one can do this). It was fun, and I think it
went pretty well - we got good interactions with the room and covered
many different facets of academic blogging.
Toward the end of the panel there was one guy sitting in the back
who described how the
biology research lab he's in has pretty much completely embraced
(internal) weblogs, wikis,
and syndication for no-holds-barred collaboration. Their feeds don't
only come from researchers but also from various apparatuses that spit
out gene-related information; apparently they generate terabytes of
RSS!
He said his lab got several
articles published in the prestigious Nature journal, and that every single one of them had originated as a blog post.
He also mentioned that the lab was criticized for having numerous
authors on their articles, which prompted me to point out how
significant that is: the whole lab has successfully implemented open
collaboration. At this point this is, I believe, a very rare thing in
the research world.
His comment pretty much blew the room away. If you were there and know who that person is, by all means please leave a comment!
