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Science journalism: Breaking the convention?

Nature volume 459, pages 1050–1051 (2009)Cite this article

Blogs and Twitter are opening up meetings to those not actually there. Does that mean too much access to science in the raw, asks Geoff Brumfiel.

Last July, Lars Jensen carried a small shoulder bag of equipment into the atrium of the glass-and-steel conference centre in Toronto, Ontario. Jensen, a bioinformatician at the University of Copenhagen, was one of about 1,400 researchers at the annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology meeting. With him he had the tools of any modern conference attendee: a laptop, a handheld PDA and a digital camera to snap a few photos of his trip.

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