Over the holidays I set up my own web presence both to be able to put more content and tools up and also to explore how I present myself as a scientist on the web. In a Semantic Web world where I am represented by a URL, what should that URL look like?

Cameron Neylon

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for any wierdness in your feed readers. The following is the reason why
as I try to get things working properly again.*

The past two years on this blog I wrote made some New Year's resolutions
and last year I assessed my performance against the previous year's
aims. This year I will admit to simply being a bit depressed about how
much I achieved in real terms and how effective I've been at getting
ideas out and projects off the ground. This year I want to do more in
terms of walking the walk, creating examples, or at least lashups of the
things I think are important.

One thing that has been going around in my head for at least 12 months
is the question of identity. How I control what I present, who I depend
on, and in the world of a semantic web where I am represented by a URL
what should actually be there when someone goes to that address. So the
positive thing I did over the holiday break, rather than write a new set
of resolutions was to start setting up my own presence on the web, to
think about what I might want to put there and what it might look like.

This process is not as far along as I would like but its far enough
along that this will be the last post at this
address.Â [OpenWetWare](http://openwetware.org "Open Wet Ware") has been
an amazing resource for me over the past several years and we will
continue to use the wiki for laboratory information and I hope to work
with the team in whatever way I can as the next generation of tools
develops. OpenWetWare was also a safe place where I could learn about
blogging without worrying about the mechanics, confident in the
knowledge that Bill Flanagan was covering the backstops. Bill is the
person who has kept things running through the various technical ups and
down and I'd particularly like to thank him for all his help.

However I have now learnt enough to be dangerous and want to try some
more things out on my own. More than can be conveniently managed on a
website that someone else has to look after. I will write a bit more
about the idea and choices I've made in setting up the site soon but for
the moment I just want to point you to the new site and offer you some
choices about subscribing to different feeds.

If you are on the feedburner feed for the blog you should be
automatically transferred over to the feed on the new site. If you're
reading in a feed reader you can check this by just clicking through to
the item on my site. If you end up at a url
startingÂ <http://cameronneylon.net/> then you are in the right place.
If not, just change your reader to point
atÂ <http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScienceInTheOpen>.

This feed will include posts on things like papers and presentations as
well as blog posts so if you are already getting that content in another
stream and prefer to just get the blog posts via RSS you should point
your reader atÂ <http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScienceInTheOpen_blog>. Â I
can't test this until I actually post something so just hold tight if it
doesn't work and I will try to get it working as soon as I can. The
comments feed for all seven of you subscribed to it should keep working.
All the posts are mirrored on the new site and will continue to be
available at OpenWetWare

Once again I'd like to thank all the people at OpenWetWare that got me
going in the blogging game and hope to see you over at the new site as I
figure out what it means to present yourself as a scientist on the web.

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 Apologies for any wierdness in your feed readers. The following is the reason why as I try to get things working properly again.
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The past two years on this blog I wrote made some New Year’s resolutions and last year I assessed my performance against the previous year’s aims.

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