I've spent the last three days at VIZBI, a Workshop on Visualizing Biological Data, held at the Broad Institute in Boston (note that "Broad" rhymes with "Code"). A great conference in a special venue that includes the DNAtrium. Videos of the talks will be online "real soon now", look for the keynotes, which were full of great ideas and visualisations.

BioStor has had a Twitter account @biostor_org for a while, but it's not been active.

Flipboard is a new application for the iPad that is pitching itself as a personalised social magazine. It's launch created a lot of buzz, so much so that many users were unable to add their Facebook and Twitter accounts to it, much to their chagrin.

Zu Ostern gibt es ausnahmsweise in diesem Blog einmal einen literarischen Leckerbissen von iRights-Autor Philipp Otto. Es geht um eine Überraschung, einen Kuss (mindestens einen), um Twitter, warme Gefühle und um aufregende Gedanken. Die 21-jährige Maria erzählt, was ihr neulich an diesem heißen Sommertag passiert ist. Eigentlich wollte sie nur zum Faulenzen runter an den See.

I've been buried in programming (and it's exam time at Glasgow) so I've not blogged for a month (gasp). I've been playing with ways to visualise Biodiversity Heritage Library content for a while (click here for a list of previous posts), and have occasionally surfaced to tweet a screenshot via twitpic.

…is that someone needs to make money out of them. It was inevitable at some point that Friendfeed would take a route that lead it towards mass adoption and away from the needs of the (rather small) community of researchers that have found a niche that works well for them.

Chris Freeland has written a thoughtful summary of his experiences of the two-day closed session to create a road map for biodiversity informatics, entitled #ebio09, silverbacks, & haiku.

So, e-Biosphere '09 is over (at least for the plebs like me, the grown ups get to spend two days charting the future of biodiversity informatics). It was an interesting event, on several levels. It's late, and I'm shattered, so this post ill cover only a few things.This was first conference I'd attended where some of the participants twittered during proceedings.

UK PubMed Central is on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UKPubMedCentral – for now just tweeting blog posts and links to UKPMC Funders’ Group-funded articles as they become available in UKPMC.

Well, not Darwin himself, exactly. The Evolution Directory (better known as "EvolDir") is a mailing list run by Brian Golding at McMaster University, Ontario.