Blogging and the Press

Today at the OSMB we had again a good lunch again, and Rachel Sterne joined our table. She works at a New York based start up Ground Report, which is a news website where anyone, including bloggers, can post news stories. Not links to news stories, as on Slashdot, but actual news stories. Stories that can be committed are not restricted to any topic, or country, or whatever. The good news is that the revenues out of advertisement is shared with the people that submit the stories, 50/50 even, if I understood correctly. The more visitor hits your story gets, the bigger your part of the revenue is. less than 1 minute read

Open Source Meets Business 2007

Today I leave for a two day visit at the Open Source Meets Business conference in Nürnberg, where Christoph will speak about the Chemoinformatics OpenSource Initiative (COSI). If you happen to go to that meeting too, let’s try to meet! less than 1 minute read

CDK Literature #1

For each CDK News I try to write up what CDK related literature has been published recently, but I failed to do so for the last two issues. In order to not postpone writing it up until close to the deadline, I will write up things here, so that I can copy-paste it later for CDK News. 1 minute read

Why do I blog?

Mitch blogged about a comment Bethany Halford, Associate Editor of C&EN, left in The Chem Blog. She is writing an opinion piece on chemistry blogs, and is wondering why I blog, whether I use a nickname, and if my employer knows I blog. So, here goes. 2 minute read

The del.icio.us tagometer on www2.blogger.com

Yesterday I blogged about how to include the new del.icio.us tagometer on a www.blogger.com blog, just like Improbulus did last December as I discovered later. Felix asked me how it could be done on the new www2.blogger.com template system. Well, here it is. less than 1 minute read

The del.icio.us tagometer on Blogspot.com

Some days ago I read about the del.icio.us tagometer, which is basically sort of save as I had before on this blog. The tagometer, however, shows some interesting properties of the blog items, like the number of people who bookmarked the item, and what tags they used. The tagometer help does not show how it can be integrated with blogspot.com (where this blog is hosted), but with the source from 0xDECAFBAD I got it working. These blogs are not yet moved to the new blogger.com system (so, www.blogger.com, not www2.blogger.com), so the below principally applies to the older system. 1 minute read

Chemical blogspace is getting more chemical

The best remedy for being depressed is the rush after hacking some nice new feature (unfortunately, it is addictive). After hacking InChI support into Chemical blogspace a couple of days back, adding some more visual feedback on those molecules is not that hard, with PubChem around that is: less than 1 minute read