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Lots of services

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What are you doing?

What are you doing? (in 140 characters or less)

Getting started(feel free to follow along)

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Find some friends(there’s more on there than you think)

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Just like blogging, you’ll find your voice

Just like blogging, you’ll find your niche

Waving, not drowning

Never ending waves of updates

Continuous partial attention(I’m way too busy already)

Twitter waterfall

Tweets ≠ RSS feeds

Less frequent posts,more frequent updates

The scientific method

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The scientific methodopen

Filling the gap between publications

Open notebook tweets

Lab team tweets

Collaborator tweets

The scientific methodautomated

Twitter has an API

Laboratory tweets

Sequencer tweets

The scientific methodconnected

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The scientific methoddistributed

Indenti.ca(implements Twitter’s API)

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Links, photos, videos, audio, quotes

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One person, many feeds

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Links

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Text

Tumblr

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Many people,many, many feeds!

I’m drowning!

Aggregation

Aggregation

FriendfeedProfilactic

Socialthing Friendfriendfeed :)

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Flickr del.icio.us Twitter Tumblr

Aggregator

Flickr

Photos and links and text and quotes

del.icio.us Twitter Tumblr

Aggregator

One feed, many people, many sources

Much better

Cool stuff from lots of people

Extend your network

Learn from people you trust

Friends

Discovery

New links, photos, quotes

Discovery

New friends

Discovery

New friends or friends

Conversations

Conversations

About new links, quotes, friends

In the network we trust

Greater than the sum of its parts

High signal / low noise

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Science Blogging 2008

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