Why is Web 2.0 Failing in Biology

A pessimist’s view of why scientists do not participate in social networking sites. According to an anonymous postdoc: “I can barely keep up iwth the literature in my field and with what my labmates are doing. Who has time to spend reading some grad student’s blog?”

This entry was written by Shanta Rohse, posted on April 25th, 2008 at 9:38 pm, filed under Linking Thinking and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. David Crotty
    Posted April 26th, 2008 at 8:20 am | Permalink

    Hi Shanta,
    An updated, and slightly less pessimistic version of the same talk is available here:
    http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/2008/04/03/web-20-for-biologists-are-any-of-the-current-tools-worth-using/

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