OpenConFooBlogSciWeb ELEVENTY POINT BAJILLION

I have some brilliant and enthusiastic friends in the science blogosphere who are putting substantial effort into building on-line venues where working scientists will create scholarly communities to engage in vibrant scientific discussion and commentary, as well as disseminate novel scientific information. As appealing as this may sound—and it does sound appealing in some respects—it is currently doomed to failure, at least in the case of the biomedical sciences.