I popped into Google Analytics, and noticed that my old K-day post from last year was getting some traffic.
I have kept a Katrina category on the blog. You can look at all of my Katrina-related posts here.

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Our lab was interviewed for the 2nd anniversary of Katrina’s landfall. It will be on Baltimore’s Fox45 at 22:00 EDT. My TV card is not currently set up, so if you manage to catch it on your DVR, please let me know.

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This is being posted via the data uplink on my Treo, because we’ve had no cable internet service (nor TV service, my roommates tell me) all day. Several calls to Comcast, in which they said it would be fixed at progressively later times, have not yielded a working connection.
I’ll just have to do my internetting [...]

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I’m not the only one harping on about open access to scientific journals. I’ve linked to at least two other blogs discussing the issue, and I’m sure there are hundreds more.
I wrote in January about an article in Nature that highlighted the PR offensive being launched by the major science publishers.
That effort has apparently borne [...]

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Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a fan of open-access scientific publishing.
CTWatch Quarterly has an excellent collection of essays out on that subject. I won’t give you an overview here. You should just go read the summary and excerpts on Confessions of a Science Librarian, and follow his links to the articles themselves.

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