Science Bloggericity
I am at the Sigma Xi Center in Research Triangle Park, NC at the NC Science Blogging Conference. I came last year with a fair amount of trepidation, but even a desultory and reluctant blogger like me found it hard not to drink the Kool-Aid. I suspect–and hope–it will only continue to metastasize.
At the moment Janet Stemwedel is leading a fascinating discussion on blog ethics and whether there is a need for a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval or some other uber-standard. As long as it doesn’t compromise my ability to traffic in rumor, innuendo and salacious gossip, I’m all for it…
I work as an Assistant Professor in the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."
January 20th, 2008 at 6:46 am
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