BlogTogether

It’s getting easier and easier to eat good local produce, meats and chef creations here in the Triangle. I’ll be monitoring the Slow Food Triangle site for food blogging opportunities. I may even try to make the April 5th event planning meeting to talk up food blogging and other online ways for celebrating this region’s agricultural bounty. Care to join me?

The Science Communicators of North Carolina has a happy hour this Wed, March 12th from 5-7pm at Tyler’s at the American Tobacco complex. Find details here. Let’s have a Durham bloggers meetup at the same time. Join us for talk of science, communication, blogging and anything else.

This afternoon, Bora and I met for coffee at Open Eye Cafe, the place where we previously hatched the idea to create the annual North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. We’ve spent the last month reviewing the feedback from the January event, and thinking about what we’d do differently a third time around. It’s time to start planning. We’ve already announced the date and location: January 16-18, 2009 at the Sigma Xi Center. The next piece to announce is that we’ll be broadening the conference to more than just science blogging. Our goal all along has been to promote the public understanding of science through online tools, so we’re renaming the conference to ScienceOnline’09 and inviting more of the Triangle’s science communicators to help us build a 3-day event to help scientists, educators, students, journalists, bloggers and others share their strategies. Over the next few weeks, we’ll launch a new site at scienceonline09.com and create a new (more stable) wiki for the planning of this conference. Stay tuned …