Expressing Scientific Insight

Lately, I’ve considered setting up my own lifestream website. Fueled by conversations following the announcement of the sale of FriendFeed to Facebook, I decided to move forward with the idea of aggregating and self-archiving my online presence.

Granted, the conversations aren’t here, they’re all at FriendFeed and Twitter. Nevertheless, I push a lot of data into those two services, and self-archiving the data ensures that I’ll have a record of it in the future.

This site will also give me a space to explore and integrate my talents, passions and research experiences (both online and in the real world) to develop a unified personal brand. Indeed, personal branding is becoming a necessity in the digital age. Although professionally I’m a bioinformatician and cancer biologist, over the past few years as Highlight HEALTH (and now Next Generation Science) have developed, it’s becoming clear to me that I’m also a new media science journalist.

Here, I’m integrating my lifestream together with a brief description of my professional Scientific Research, displaying my Curriculum Vitae (using XHML (hResume microformat) to pull it directly from LinkedIn), showcasing recent articles I’ve written for Highlight HEALTH and Next Generation Science, and writing about web development and online publishing, communications and marketing.