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Guidance, insight, and ideas in a time of accelerating change. A blog about new media by Steve Borsch.

Welcome to the blog of the F-Secure Security Labs - maintained by the personnel responsible for analyzing virus, phishing, spyware, and spam attacks.

Like Discover, but shorter (and bloggier), DiscoBlog is the soapbox where Discover editors bring their daily observations and opinions on science.

An irreverent, intelligent, science and political blog.

The weblog of Science Commons. Science Commons is an exploratory project to apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science. Science Commons works in three project areas: Publishing, Licensing, and Data.

The weblog of Swivel.com, the public data sharing archive.

A blog about living through veterinary school and the vast beyond.

Veterinary medicine from the inside out, with thoughtful commentary. A must-read.

Witty discussion of interesting drugs and poisons.

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports on a new website called Swivel that is billing itself as the "YouTube for Data." Swivel is (or will be) an open database for uploading, downloading, analyzing, and viewing all kinds of data, from weather data to financial data. The analytical capabilities mentioned so far are correlations between datasets, such as weather and stocks. Arrington predicts that academics will "go nuts over this," but do they realize how many scientific databases exist already? Swivel may be useful as the everyman's database as well as a good place to make data accessible to others when institutional red tape makes university or other academic databases impractical or otherwise impossible. But now imagine the havoc the site could wreck when proprietary data is uploaded to the site, whether it's a scientists's stolen research data or a pharmaceutical company's drug testing data. The damage could be as bad as or worse than what traditional media companies are facing with regard to copyright violations and piracy. For an extra fee, the site provides the option to keep your data private. Now this could be handy for researchers who want a place to store datasets without the hassle of buying their own hardware. There's no word yet on what the cost of private data storage will be. Swivel is expected to launch later this week.

Pimm - Partial immortalization is a weblog about biotechnology, maximum life extension, stem cells, regenerative medicine and science hacks. It is a bookblog too: I would like to publish some parts of it concerning maximum life extension technologies and regmed. Please participate and comment because the true value and quality of the adventure needs your contribution, which I would really appreciate.

Jennifer Saylor is a communications specialist, organizer, writer, citizen journalist, social media nerd and lover of science and the scientific worldview. Jennifer is a mutant bizarro hybrid half-artist, half-science person, and she makes her living writing nonfiction.

There are a number of possibilities and challenges - social, business, technical, scientific - that are created by the wealth of biological data being generated today. One of the goals of bbgm is to touch upon these issues while examining the impact of convergence and synergies between different technologies, and how they might be applied to the life science space.

Regular postings based on fallacies covered in our book Humbug! (156 pages, 35 cartoons - see sidebar). Using a seamless combination of both passion and restraint, we expose erroneous thinking with irony, whimsy, sarcasm, satire, caricature, "distortature" and occasional breathtaking hypocrisy. Humbug! the book is a considered and carefully written commentary on fallacies. Humbug! the blog is less considered, more spontaneous and at times more outrageous. No poppy is too short to be lopped.

Stephen Thorsett, Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz. Welcome to my personal web page. I'm a member of the faculty in the Astronomy and Astrophysics department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I am also Dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. This web site collects

I was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and raised in the suburb of Longueuil for almost my entire life. Now, am a first-year science student at Carleton University in Ottawa, majoring in Earth Sciences. Watching television, surfing the Internet and reading books are my main modes of entertainment. Right now, I am trying to figure out the inner working of the universe. I am upbeat about my chances.

Wonk- Fascinated by politics. Walkabout- When someone has wondered off. Liberal views on politics, religion, and the media, and science news.

Strolling with a skeptical biochemist.