Hello! I'll be liveblogging Diana Taylor's address at Duke today, "The Digital as Anti-Archive?", part of the 2009 Provost Lecture series "The Future of the Past, the Future of the Present: The Historical Record in the Digital Age." Taylor is a professor in Spanish and Performance Studies at NYU.

Our hosts for this session are Cameron Neylon and Deepak Singh, who have themselves explored the many social networks developed especially for scientists and bring to us the question: Why aren't these more successful?  Some examples are Nature Network, MyExperiment.  Others?  Please add others that you know of, and your thoughts on them.

Our hosts, Danielle Lee and acmegirl, began the session by asking how we can make science more representative of our population as a whole. Audience members pointed out that an exercise of drawing scient