When I started using Twitter, it was a bit lonely. There just weren’t too many life science types there. Well things are changing (and I have a feeling FriendFeed has something to do with that).
Earlier today, Attila took things one step further by setting up a twitter account called biotecher, which aggregates various “bio” Twitterers. Follow “biotechers” on Twitter and always feel free to follow me (mndoci).
Just thinking a little ahead, you have Friendfeed, newsgang, twitlinks, etc. These collect links posted by various people, as opposed to clustering around stories like techmeme and postgenomic do. This river of information approach is an interesting one and is a source of a lot of information, since one can easily skim. It’ll be interesting how the ways we consume information keeps changing. The fear I always have is losing one of my favorite aspects of the web, accidental discovery.
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I find StumbleUpon to be a great tool for accidental, yet targeted, discovery.
I find StumbleUpon to be a great tool for accidental, yet targeted, discovery.
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