I am back from two weeks in Europe, my first extended vacation in almost exactly four years. Budapest, Venice, Lake Lucerne, Vienna, they allowed me to refresh and not think about work and science for the better part, but now I am back and ready to plunge back to many of the tasks I enjoy, work, blogging, podcasting, etc. Will take a while to figure out what all I missed, since I made a conscious effort to stay away from much of the geek news, but here is a bit of what I did miss
Hari put Coast to Coast Bio #21 online, which is a very special episode, our first ever interview with Ricardo Vidal. We talk about Mendeley and the world of science online, among other things.
Speaking of Friendfeed, the room for Science Barcamp suggests that this years pre-Scifoo Palo Alto edition was a resounding success. Once again, I couldn’t attend, since I really needed to take this break, but hope to some day, hopefully next year. Update: Martin Fenner has a great post covering the event
Apparently Google announced a Web OS (whatever that means). I think about it as (without having done all my homework) more along the lines of OSX, an OS optimized for web access built on top of Linux (OSX is Mach-based)
Back in the saddle again
I am back from two weeks in Europe, my first extended vacation in almost exactly four years. Budapest, Venice, Lake Lucerne, Vienna, they allowed me to refresh and not think about work and science for the better part, but now I am back and ready to plunge back to many of the tasks I enjoy, work, blogging, podcasting, etc. Will take a while to figure out what all I missed, since I made a conscious effort to stay away from much of the geek news, but here is a bit of what I did miss
Hari put Coast to Coast Bio #21 online, which is a very special episode, our first ever interview with Ricardo Vidal. We talk about Mendeley and the world of science online, among other things.
ISMB was once again a remarkable success story for microblogging. Neil points to the great work done by those attending, notably the Friendfeed room.
Speaking of Friendfeed, the room for Science Barcamp suggests that this years pre-Scifoo Palo Alto edition was a resounding success. Once again, I couldn’t attend, since I really needed to take this break, but hope to some day, hopefully next year. Update: Martin Fenner has a great post covering the event
Scifoo is going on as we speak
Apparently Google announced a Web OS (whatever that means). I think about it as (without having done all my homework) more along the lines of OSX, an OS optimized for web access built on top of Linux (OSX is Mach-based)
And oh yes, Roger Federer won Wimbledon #6 and Grand Slam title #15
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