Aug 3rd, 2007
Bloggers Challenged My Memory Game
How many of the people behind the blogs you read, have you actually met in person? I hadn't met a single one before yesterday.
Last night Alvaro and I were invited by Bora at A blog around the clock for a blogger get-together at Jupiter in Berkeley 
. Bora who is a part of the Scienceblog umbrella had gathered an interesting group of people, mainly bloggers with diverse backgrounds such as life science, law, anthropology – you name it.
Remembering names is a huge brain exercise for me, since I tend to forget especially names I haven’t heard before. I have tried to pick up some tricks for remembering names from Merlin Mann at 43folders. Let’s see who I can remember from the event:
Bosco is a biophysicist at UCSF who writes awesome stories about Belgian fairytales, art and poetry.
Chris Hoofnagle is an attorney who writes the Denialism blog together with his MD/PhD candidate brother Mark on the intersection of science and politics.
Actually, it turned out to be several persons named Chris at the event, confusing me even more. Chris Patil writes about the biology of aging, when he’s not in San Francisco going to really good concerts.
Alex Palazzo, postdoc at Harvard Medical School is visiting California with his wife. He writes the daily transcript blog which is not just about science and RNA but also art, food, music and more.
“Thoughts from Kansas” is a blog by Joshua Rosenau who is opening people’s minds for evolution. In his blog he says: “In Kansas biology is political science”.
Curtis Pickering from UCSF has made a social networking site for scientists called JeffsBench together with his colleague Geoff (not Jeff).
Thanks for a nice gathering, Bora!
Update: some more pics at San Bora's and comments at Alex Palazzo's.
Thank you for a greate article. Awarded the pleasure of reading.
Eric,
Glad you liked it. Always enjoyable to get feedback on my writing. Thanks!
Hey Andreas,
Just dropping a line. It was rad to meet you guys - people who call themselves bloggers without suffering paroxyms of social anxiety. Tell me what you're up to. Later, dude.
You don't know how lucky you are that you have a chance to meet such great bloggers, to gather around a table and talk.
Regarding the main topics of my blog, I'm totally alone here, in Central-Europe. If I'd like to meet someone of the same interest, at least I should catch a plane...
Hi Bosco, it was nice to meet you too.
Bertalan: yes, we know we are lucky...let's think of creative ideas to be more connected, maybe some webcasts?
I'm going to buy a webcamera.
Bosco, it was rad meeting you as well. I'm going back to Europe by the end of this month, but I'll stay connected through the blogging and hopefully come back soon.
Berci: Where are you from?
US is awesome - but why don't we build something just as good in Europe? Let me know, I'm going back to Northern-Europe soon.
Talk to you later!
Andreas: Let's start something cool in Europe as well. I finally bought a webcam, so we can make contact more easily.
Anyway, I'm from Hungary.
[...] August 14, 2007 Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, About me, Computer, science, Blogging. trackback I've already told you how hard it was to be far away from any blogging event (e.g. ScienceFoo Camp). If I would like to meet someone with the same interest, then I should catch a plane. I can't meet medical bloggers here (Why? How many medical bloggers do you know in Central-Europe?) , I can't organize blogger events just like the one took place in San Francisco and reported by Sharp Brains. [...]