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In this article, the author discusses his involvement in the blogsphere as a stem-cell faculty scientist along with an encouragement for his colleagues to be engaged in blogging. He relates his experiences of battling prostate cancer to the sudden closure of the stem-cell blog The Niche in the "Nature" magazine, which was his favorite. However, he says that other scientist were afraid to do blogging because they are worry on the negative paper reviews, grant, and insulting reader's comments.

Explores the usability of the World Wide Web in the transfer of ideas between scientists. Recommendation on the use of collaborative technologies such as blogs and wikis; Feature of the OpenWetWare introduced by scientists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Perception of scientists about the benefit of blog in promoting their work.

The article focuses on the web technology blog of the journal "Nature." It states that the blog is used by scientists who follow the advent of online tools and to author papers for online peer review. It also mentions that the blog shows how a Wave discussion works, and reorders citations added in the database.

The article discusses various topics featured in the blogs of the "Nature" journal. The retraction of a 2001 paper by Nobel laureate Linda Buck and colleagues triggered discussions on NPG blogs. Debra Speert calls it the highest profile retraction that she can recall in neuroscience and on the "Nature Network" neuroscience forum. Readers are asked to give their opinions on the role of journals and scientists in retracting published work. The journal announces that for retraction or other type of correction to be published, all authors should sign it and if some do not, the editors seek advice from peer reviewers and if necessary, the institution.

The article focuses on duplicate publication, as discussed various forums and blogs. At the "Nature Publishing Group (NPG)" blogs and forums, one commentary that proposes the subject of widespread duplicate publication has attracted numerous responses. Meanwhile, a debate among scientists have arisen at the publishing in the forum of the New Millennium on Nature Network. It discusses on whether duplicate publication will become a problem in their profession and what are the means that it can be stemmed.

The article presents a blog related to the author's life in the laboratory posted at http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/strippedscience. Viktor Poór, a doctorate student who experiments on a peptide called hepcidin contends that working in the lab is sometimes boring. He has posted amusing fantasies about his struggle to fight boredom in the microscope room. Tips for biologists on how to spend their time at conferences are also presented. Users are encouraged to comment and make suggestions at the blog.

The article discusses the use of online media by scientists in relation to public engagement and career development. Topics include monitoring search-engine results about oneself; the creation of blogs and personal websites; and the experiences of scientists including Brian Krueger, Casey Dunn, and Craig McClain with blogging. The use of the social media service Twitter is addressed. INSET: PRIVACY SETTINGS: Facebook friend or colleague?.

The article presents the comments of several readers of the journal "Nature" about an editorial on double-blind peer reviews that was published in a previous issue of the journal. The editorial has been posted on the Peer-to-Peer blog at the web site www.blogs.nature.com. Some researchers say that the reviews are of lower quality in journals with high rejection rates.