Around the open science, social web

This blog seems to become more about social networks/open science and less about bioinformatics every week. Perhaps that’s no bad thing. Here’s a few highlights from the activity stream this week.

• From Depth-First: User-Created Compound Monographs on Chempedia.net on the Web 2.0 approach to chemical encyclopedias
• Post of the week: in response to One Big Lab, Cameron on the science exchange
• In response: Deepak on micro-funding; thankfully one of us has a business mind
• Science Commons asks are you part of open science?
• And the iPlant Collaborative takes affirmative action on science collaboration (some nice-looking jobs at CSHL posted there)
• Nature Network announce plans for a European Science Blogging Conference
• Also from Nature Network, a record 100 comments for Jennifer’s post; admittedly the last few are silly ones to get her over the line
• UsefulChem points us to an article in Cell on open-source drug discovery
• From Bioinformatics, a follow-up to the “404″ study (thanks Paulo!); take-home message is that academics probably shouldn’t run webservers
• Rosie’s long, blog-less teaching stint is over; she returns with a discussion about making shared code readable
• Finally from the “things that made me laugh” department: Facebook group pop songs as graphs (thanks Graham)