At 13:11 +0100 14/8/09, Antony Williams wrote: >Cameron Neylon, Peter Murray-Rust and myself were at the Google Wave >discussion at SciFoo. Cameron has an intention to use Google Wave to >write an article and this may match with your intentions. I have cc'ed >Cameron for his comments. > >Antony Williams, VP Strategic Development >ChemSpider, Royal Society of Chemistry
Tony, I presume since you are posting this information to the list, the knowledge of the above meeting is open and can be quoted as such? If anyone is interested, this particular thread was catalysed at my end by a request from Nature Chemistry for myself (and independently a colleague) to write a News&View article for the journal. This takes as its starting point, a recently published, and possibly even controversial, regular article, and appends a view of it by one or more others. That view is of course static, and cannot be added to by anyone else (it is also limited to 1000 words, and odd limitation in this day and age?). In this it is, it could be argued, a rather pale imitation of a blog entry. My article charted its own course (I do not think I was in charge at all), and I ended up with what might be described as an "exploratorium", this being of the chemistry and in particular of the molecules concerned. But again, it is very much a write once/read many conventional construct. The subsequent discussions with the editor of Nature Chemistry had (and continue to have) a most interesting flavour. The outcome, whatever it becomes, is expected in October, or possibly November. I have mulled over whether my "commentary" (it evolved into this from an News&Views, and now allows 2000 words!) could indeed be cast as a Google wave, thus inviting others into the exploratorium. It also begs the question of whether a self-consistent analysis of some aspect of chemistry should continue to mutate with time, or whether after a period of rapid mutation, it then becomes cast in stone. Much of the social dynamics of a university department very much continues to depend on the later (tenure, promotion, prizes, etc). -- Professor Henry S Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ & /rzepa/blog Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
