Screencasting for the life scientist

June 28, 2007

First things first. What I am about to tell you about is absolutely not free of any conflicts of interest. So having got that out of the way, I’d like to tell you about Bioscreencast.com, a website that has its roots in Jon Udell and in the curious minds of a few geeks. One of us started posting screencasts to YouTube and the response led to phone calls, discussions, and I suspect, some late dinners in Cambridge, MA. The end result is Bioscreencast.com. The idea has always been that (a) screencasts are a great way for people to see how to use software and web services and (b) scientific knowledge is distributed across minds and geographies and we can all benefit from that.

The goal of Bioscreencast is to allow life scientists to capture how they use various software packages and websites for their research and productivity and share that with the community. Obviously, we spent some time in making sure it was somewhat useful and provided a decent user experience and hopefully with good feedback that will continue to be the case. In the meantime, read this post or go to the website to learn more about Bioscreencast.com and to see what we have there.

Video, podcasts, and the internet in general are going to reshape scientific communication. Readers of this blog should not find this opinion surprising at all. Bioscreencast.com is one attempt to leverage the technology available to us. I hope all of you will participate and make it successful. I’d love to see some examples of molecular simulation out there.

I must add that although I am listed in the “About Us” page, the only credit I can take is providing some very useless ideas on web strategy. The others have done all the hard work.

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Posted by Deepak Singh | Filed Under Admin, Life Science, Self, Software & Internet 

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