Neil asks the question. Nodalpoint has a wiki. As Bill says in the first comment an open science discussion should not be centralized. One of the beauties of the web is to keep things distributed. Via aggregators, search, trackbacks, etc, we have the capability to monitor all this discussion. The nodalpoint wiki should be just one of the places where open science is discussed, and it might just become THE place to do so.
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[...] When I first started perusing nodalpoint I wasn’t a frequent visitor. Those were the days when the site was very slow, but that was all in the past. The site is slick, fast, and one that I visit often. The other day I responded to Neil’s post about nodalpoint being the center of the open science universe. In that I said that there should be no central hub for open science, e.g. the nodalpoint wiki. However, as I was checking out the site today, I realized that nodalpoint is not doing as well as it should. The bioinformatics world at least needs a community hub, and nodalpoint can be that hub. It has a loyal user base and is a rich source of information. I have been lax in contributing to that community, and have treated it more as a blog and less as a community, so hereon, I will try to be a better citizen. Probably won’t post over there (I wish nodalpoint would aggregate posts from its members), but do plan to participate more there if I can. [...]
[...] ps Thanks to Bill Hooker for his great summary, and to all these people blogging about the Open Science Notebook [neat], and especially all those people who are really doing it. [...]