The NC Science Blogging Conference has 60 registrants. Are you one of them? Why not?

Brian first alerted me to this new faculty position at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. bq. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill seeks an assistant or associate professor with current concepts and professional abilities in the area of online news. A master’s degree is the preferred minimum degree. This person should be highly skilled in writing and editing online news, in blogging and in developing news content for the web. This position is in the practice tenure track in the School. The successful candidate will teach a 3-2 course load and will be responsible for assisting other professors in infusing online applications throughout news courses and for helping to revise the basic news writing course. Practice tenure track faculty are expected to be excellent teachers and to publish professionally or to produce creative products that are showcased nationally. Qualifications: Applicants should have demonstrated expertise in online practices, including writing and editing. Teaching excellence as well as excellence in scholarly research and production of creative products will be high priorities. Submit a letter, curriculum vita or resume, and at least three references. If you wish, submit course syllabi and other material, all to: Jo Bass, Staff Assistant to Search Committee, News/Online Faculty Search, School of Journalism, UNC-CH, CB# 3365, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; Telephone (919) 962-1204; Fax (919) 962-0620; E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); and http://www.jomc.unc.edu. Apply if you’re interested. Nice to see the j-school making some changes. ADD: Scripting News readers, while you’re here, check out the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference, scheduled for Jan 20, 2007 in Chapel Hill, NC.

Less than two months to go until the NC Science Blogging Conference, and the planning is coming together. Here are some highlights: * ScienceBlogs is on board as a sponsor, and a number of their bloggers will be attending and leading sessions, including our own Bora Zivkovic. * Lulu is on board as a sponsor, and will provide the tote bags for the grab bags that will go to all attendees. * Three staffers from that venerable medical journal The Lancet will be joining us. See who they are, and all the other registered attendees, here. * Bora’s put together a fantastic list of scienc bloggers and carnivals. If you’re in search of science on the web, start here. * We’ll have quite a few out-of-towners flying in for this event, and we’ll need volunteers to shuttle our visitors to and from the airport. If you’re willing to be a driver, add your name here. More news to come in the next week. Stay tuned.

Meet Josh and the other Raleigh/Cary bloggers at Helios Coffee tonight at 6:30.

Please join me for the Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup tonight at 7pm at the Chapel Hill Public Library (basement conference room). We’ll talk about how you’ve blogged about holidays, home and health — bring examples of posts from your blog.