Mailund on the Internet

About a month ago I suggested that we started a blog at the BiRC homepage to show the outside work a bit more of the activities going on at BiRC. I don’t think we do enough of that at our current web pages. The suggestion got some mixed responses, but mainly it was just ignored, so I went ahead and added the blog just to try it out. There is not much work involved in setting it up. Skeletonz already has a plugin for it.

Throughout December, the blog ran at our pages, but could only be accessed internally at BiRC. This defeats the purpose, of course, but it served as an experiment for seeing if there was enough to blog about to make it worth doing at all.

The blog hasn’t exactly been flodded with posts, but there is at least some activity, so now I’ve made it public here.

What I have in mind for the blog is just reporting new papers, interesting seminars, releases of software and such. Stuff that ought to be reported somewhere, but that doesn’t deserve being shown on the announcement list on the front page.

The blog is just a small part of an update of the entire web-pages. Generally, I don’t think the pages show enough of what is really going on at BiRC and I’d like to change that. This is very hard to do, of course, since everyone has a different opinion about how the pages should be. Last summer we had a long discussion about the pages, the entire BiRC group, but nothing came out of it. Now my hope is that by actually making prototypes of what I have in mind, we can have a more productive discussion about it. Discussing abstract page changes gets us nowhere, but maybe discussing concrete suggestions will.

I’ve made a couple of other updates to the pages, but they are still only avaialble internally to BiRC. We will all discuss it at a meeting early February. I’ll blog more about it by then.