Last Saturday I attended the Science Online London conference (Solo09) at the Royal Institution in London, an event that brought together a bunch of people involved in science and the web in some shape or form. There were working scientists who blog, like myself, from all areas of science, people working for blogging communities like Scienceblogs.com, representatives from the big publishers in science like Nature, software developers and many more. It was a really fun and interesting meeting and I’m glad that I hopped over the Channel for it.

The evening before I went along to an Unconference hosted by publishing company Mendeley at their office in Clerkenwell. I imagined an Unconference to be something like Fight Club for geeks but in fact it was pretty non-weird – it just means the participants decide the discussion topics on the spot by vote and the format is altogether a little more relaxed. I’m not sure if it’s typical of all Unconferences, but the alcohol a’plenty was also a nice touch. Thanks Mendeley!

I’ve got a couple of posts about the event up my sleeve but I first wanted to post a link to this very useful post on the blog of Martin Fenner, one of the event’s organisers. He’s gathered all the blog posts that have appeared after the conference, including his own thoughts. Go take a look, there’s some excellent stuff there – although there’s so much, I can’t keep up! Lots of good discussion and links in the Science Online FriendFeed room.