We’ve opened registration for the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Click through to the conference wiki to see the agenda for the free 2-day event January 18 & 19, 2008, and add your suggestions for ways we can make this conference bigger and better (donations and sponsors are more than welcome). We’ll continue to post news and updates about the conference on BlogTogether.

Ed Cone alerts us to a Sept 8 half-day Conference on Politics and the Internet in RTP.

WELCOME Indy readers. We’ve finally confirmed dates for a visit to Durham by chef-author-blogger Michael Ruhlman for a food blogging event: * A reading and book signing Sunday, Sept 23rd at 4pm at Regulator Bookshop * A ticketed 5-course dinner for up to 35 people at Piedmont Restaurant Monday, Sept 24th at 7:30pm. Details to come. * Coffee with the Chefs at 3CUPS Tuesday, Sept 25th at 8am — local chefs are invited to meet Ruhlman; public invited to come by after 9am. Contact Anton if you’d like to help plan this.

Announcing the annual BlogTogether Backyard Barbecue: please join me Friday, August 31st at my home in Durham for our annual backyard bash. I’ll provide the keg from Carolina Brewery and a hot gas grill, you bring meat and a dish to pass. Sign up on the wiki.
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Duke students are blogging from around the world. Read a news article and see notes from our Duke-sponsored BlogTogether happy hour back in February.

I still haven’t resolved the BlogTogether logo contest, but I did find a new template to use for the site. A new logo will be swapped in later. A couple of style and formatting changes yet to make, but check back soon for the new site. UPDATE: Switched back to the old template until I straighten out some kinks in the new style.

A good set of links: 55 Essential Articles Every Serious Blogger Should Read.

After a spate of dwindling attendance at the Raleigh Bloggers Meetup, this meetup at the Raleigh Times Bar had a great turnout. Sam Ruby was there, as was fellow IBM programmer Pat Mueller, Michael Kimsal, Jackson Fox , Wayne Sutton, Dave Johnson, Didier and Anton Zuiker. The group decided to broaden the scope of the meetup, so future gatherings will be open to programmers and “code monkeys” in addition to bloggers and web designers. See the new Raleigh Web Tech community.

They did it this weekend in Boulder: Startup Weekend and vosnap.com. Let’s think about doing this here in the Triangle …

Bora’s on his new PLoS job as of today. Read about his plans to grow that online community, and do your part to help him succeed.

From our Greensboro blogger friend comes a new placeblogging tool, We101. Add your blog today. (Thanks Paul Jones for the tip.)

Founder of BlogTogether and the powerhouse (and whipmaster) behind everything that happens in the bloggy world in the Triangle, Anton Zuiker, has great news.

UNC law prof and blogger Eric Muller was on WUNC’s The State of Things yesterday. Even if you haven’t been reading Eric’s posts about his family, you’ll enjoy this interview Muller on The State of Things http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot061807a.mp3/view.

Attila (read the entire transcript of our chat) alerted me to a new book review in Nature of ‘The Open Science 2006’ science blogging anthology. MC and Reed have already blogged about the review. Let me know what you think. And keep the submissions for the 2007 edition flowing in.

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