CJR, @scio11, etc: ScienceOnline2011 a festive sell-out meeting
Those of us who missed the ScienceOnline2011 meeting of 300 tweeting Spartans last week in Research Triangle Park are not out of luck, as its examination of the exploding realm of all-online science news reporting, sci news commenting, sci news chewing upon, and general web-savvy science popularizing scrivening is archived and much of it already accessible.
A good rundown is to be found at the Columbia Journalism Review, where Cristine Russell, pres of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, writes it up. The meeting’s own twitter lineup, still rumbling along, is @sci11 . It turns out, reports Cris, that it took about 45 minutes of twitter frenzy to sell out its enrollment limit.
The ksjtracker got able representation by our mostly-medical Tracker, Paul Raeburn, who reports on it next post down.
The Tracker yours-truly here posts on this event with some chagrin at being so out of it. While I am not sure I’d have been fast enough to register in time anyway, I never even heard about it till a week before it occurred. Cris told me she was going, she was so excited. All I could say was what are you talking about? Paul’s going, and I don’t even know about it? Ed Yong and Carl Zimmer too? That makes me, while making most of my living on line writing about science writing, an official and forlorn fossil, species Extinctosaurus oldemediai (I am registered at Twitter but, oh this is tedious and so 20th century, Twitter messages and especially screens full of them still just look like hash to me).
I am vowing to spend a couple of days following somebody, or some event, that I care about and see if the bug bites.I mean, I have to try it and, until I do, stop asking who has time for that? All the cool kids have been doing it for years now.
- Charlie Petit
