Trumpets, own, for the blowing of

Posted on 18 January 2009 by rpg

Although I’m not at the thing that’s going on in North Carolina, I do have my spies.

And my spies say the

Consensus seems to be that, outside of Nature Networks, science social networking sites are hopeless and useless

— Jonathan Gitlin (@drjonboyg)

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15 Responses to Trumpets, own, for the blowing of

  1. Stephen Curry says:
    18 January 2009 at 11:56

    Damn – I don’t know how to play the trumpet…!
    He seems to imply he will blog about the conference on Ars Technica… any idea where?

  2. Richard P. Grant says:
    18 January 2009 at 12:03

    No Stephen–I tend not to read Ars.
    That’s why I keep spies.

  3. Eva Amsen says:
    18 January 2009 at 14:31

    Someone also described NN today as “a nerdy Facebook”, which is a compliment in my book.
    (Also, Henry misses you.)

  4. Richard P. Grant says:
    18 January 2009 at 19:21

    Old news !
    (Give that big lummox a kiss from me, Eva).

  5. Eva Amsen says:
    18 January 2009 at 20:17

    Aww, I didn’t see this in time. I gave him a hug, though. But it was my own. In a few months you can kiss Henry as much as you want xx =P

  6. Richard P. Grant says:
    18 January 2009 at 20:30

    Um. Why do you think I asked you to do it?

  7. Eva Amsen says:
    18 January 2009 at 20:32

    You’re shy?

  8. Richard P. Grant says:
    18 January 2009 at 22:39

    if that’s how you spell ‘scared’, yes!

  9. Richard Wintle says:
    19 January 2009 at 00:44

    Ha! “hopeless and useless”, I love it.
    Absolutely no clue what Twitter is or how to use it though.

  10. Richard P. Grant says:
    19 January 2009 at 00:55

    Or how to post to NN it appears (giggle).

  11. Jennifer Rohn says:
    19 January 2009 at 10:30

    There’s really one or two others, right? I got a visit from the Research Gate guy, Ijad Madisch, a few months ago, and he was effusively optimistic. I don’t know anyone who’s signed up yet, so I don’t know how it’s going. He does have a lots of people signed up, apparently.

  12. Richard P. Grant says:
    19 January 2009 at 10:37

    I keep getting emails asking me to join various things. I mentioned ResearchGate once: I guess it’s time to update?

  13. Eva Amsen says:
    19 January 2009 at 14:40

    “There’s really one or two others, right?”
    No! There are at least ten! I didn’t know either. And, well, that’s exactly the point.

  14. Kristi Vogel says:
    19 January 2009 at 16:06

    This recently popped up on the Research Blogging feed.
    The irony of linking a blog post critique of social media, on a science social networking site ….

  15. Richard Wintle says:
    20 January 2009 at 19:46

    For anyone who missed it, Richard is winding me up about my double-posted comment, which he has kindly deleted (after rubbing it in a bit).

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