SO’09: Thank you, please come again

January 19, 2009 in Science, Writing | 4 comments

Science Online '09

ScienceOnline’09 is now over and I’m back in the warm Central Valley. I’d hoped to post a blog entry or two a day during the unconference, but the free time never materialized. My focus got commandeered by the discussions, demos and good ol’ fashion conversations with people. Many people. I have a jacket pocket stuffed with names, blogs and email addresses to sort through, so it may take a few days before I get a hold of some of you.

I met Talia Page over at TalkingScience.org, and she posted an overview of the unconference. I finally met Bora, one of the organizers, and he’s gathered a number of overviews.

If the sheer inspiration and motivation wasn’t enough, I got a lot of ideas that I want to develop for this blog. I’ll elaborate on this more in future posts.

I thank Kevin again for first letting me know about the conference. It was more than worth my while. I look forward to Science Online ‘10. See you next year!

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  1. Glendon Mellow’s avatar

    Glendon Mellow on January 19, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    Great to meet you Alex! Good time.

  2. Betul’s avatar

    Betul on January 19, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Hi Alex,
    It was great meeting you. You survived very well in our mini UN table :)
    Let me know how things go for you.

  3. Abel Pharmboy’s avatar

    Abel Pharmboy on January 21, 2009 at 2:56 am

    Alex, I believe we only met when I was taking money at the Saturday banquet (sorry to be so distracted) but I just wanted to give you high compliments on your portrait of Rebecca Skloot on Friday night. The composition was wonderful and you truly captured the moment of a presentation well-done. Next year, I pay you to do my portrait!

  4. AlexL’s avatar

    AlexL on January 21, 2009 at 9:02 am

    Hi Abel,

    I’m not sure if I formally met you. I was actually occupied as the unofficial American representative at a mini UN table for most of the banquet, but I think I saw you taking photos at various times at the unconference.

    Thank you for the kind words, and it is nice to know when people explicitly let me know that they like having their portrait taken. I still have a lot of room to grow with my photography, so we’ll definitely see next year.