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Notes about the narrative journalism conference that the Poynter Institute and the Nieman Foundation held last weekend are on the blog linked to above.

The last two blog meetings have been Webcast and it seems that future meetings may be, also. People–within and without the meeting–have also been logging on to the #bloggercon IRC channel to chat during the meeting. If you’re interested in listening to what happened during Thursday’s meeting, the audio file is available. I actually talk [...]

Friday’s Guardian reports that the British House of Commons’ science and technology committee plans to look into scientific publishing early next year to explore alternate publishing methods, like open-access journals, in the wake of growing dissatisfaction with academic publisher Elsevier’s business practices.