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?”

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  1. 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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