A start-up is creating buzz in many blogs with new desktop video conferencing software. You can have high-quality live
video chats with up to six people, leave video messages and embed the app in a blog or website. A download is available for Windows with a Mac version “coming soon”.
Coturnix, at “A Blog Around the Clock” discusses the science blogs at Duke. He writes “Duke University,
after years of being behind the curve, is now striving mightily to establish itself as a leader in online science communication. As a recent news article shows, the school is actively encouraging its students to keep blogs and make podcasts.” He links to and encourages exploration of the Duke blogs currently available and predicts that Duke has a chance to become “cutting edge”.
Coturnix is a prolific blogger about biology (especially chronobiology), education, time, politics and blogging. He is one of the original science bloggers, a group of more than 60 science blogs sponsored (but not controlled by) the Seed Media Group, who cover a wide range of scientific topics and everything else. I spend way too much time at ScienceBlogs.
Coturnix has recently joined PLoS-ONE as the Online Community Manager. PLoS ONE is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publisher of reports on primary research from any scientific discipline by the Public Library of Science (PLoS).
