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Science blogger extraordinaire Bora Zivkovic — our friend and BlogTogether regular — has great news.

The third annual ConvergeSouth conference in Greensboro will be October 19 and 20, 2007. Don’t miss it — the Greensboro crew knows how to put on an excellent event.

Some news about the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference: * Burroughs Wellcome Fund has confirmed a very generous grant for the conference! More about that next week. * We’ll be moving the conference wiki and blog to www.scienceblogging.com in the next few days.

Novelist and blogger Bob Slentz-Kesler was at the Durham Farmers Market yesterday, wearing a fantastic t-shirt: And through Bob’s blog, I came across We Love Durham NC, a blog I’ve added to my newsreader.

Bora Zivkovic (who turns 41 today) headed to San Francisco this week to interview with PLoS One, and next week Josh Staiger is leaving Carolina to join Google. Good luck to both of them.

Sigma Xi has graciously offered to host the 2008 NC Science Blogging Conference at their gorgeous building in RTP (that’s between Durham and Raleigh). So, we have a
DATE: Saturday, January 19, 2008. We have a location: Sigma Xi Center. Next up: confirming our sponsors. Then, filling out the program. Registration for the conference will open on September 1, 2007.

Over at the N&O editor’s blog, Managing Editor Dan Barkin points to a few audio files that now accompany online new articles, with this forecast: bq. We are not a television channel yet, and we are not a radio station yet, but I expect that in the not-to-distant future, we will be producing lots of video and lots of audio. Nice addition, Dan.

Chapel Hill bloggers gathered at Milltown tonight, with Brian Russell buying the beer. Brian wanted to talk about a Carrboro coworking initiative. Josh Staiger confirmed he’s headed west to work for Google. Bharat and Steve Corey and Jean were there also. Small group tonight, and a consensus that we should meetup with the Chapel Hill Flickr group (someone help me find a link).

2008NCSBClogo200.pngAs the 2007 Science Blogging Conference was such a great success, we are already in full swing in organizing the 2008 conference and hoping to make it even bigger and better than the first one. Our beta-version wiki is up – check out the homepage and the first, rough outlines of the program (feel free to edit the page and add your idea at the bottom or in the comments). At this point we are trying to get more sponsors so if you and your organization/company/magazine is interested, let us know soon. Check out our blog for updates. Open%20Laboratory%20cover%20image.jpgLast time, almost in time for the conference, we edited and published the first-ever science blogging anthology, the Open Laboratory 2006, which was an instant hit. Thus, we are already collecting nominations for the next years’ edition. Send us your best posts (or best posts written by others) of the year by using this submission form and help us spread the news by adding this code to your blog or website.