Notes from the Biomass

Associated with and inspired by the Creative Commons, the Science Commons project is providing standardized licenses to spread open access and facilitate the exchange of data and publications. It is backed by an impressive group of scientists. I like the separation into data, publishing and licensing, providing a distinction between experimental information, hypotheses and resources such as cell lines.
The Creative Commons website presents the Science Common in depth.

[via netzpolitik.de (requires German but never registration )]

Dear SVP of a Boston based PR company,

You are new in the email spamming business, aren't you? Otherwise you would have noticed that sending unsolicited email to bloggers is a mildly silly idea, even more so when signed personally by a "senior vice president". They can simply put the name of the company you would like to promote on their site together with defamatory statements (such as hires "PR companies to send unwanted emails"). Get that blogger issue from Forbes and tremble a little, I can't be asked to take any further actions here and won't even disclose your name here. You've got mail.

Roland

Looks like the biotech spammers are as inexperienced as the biotech spammees. And thank twoday.net for taking care of comment spam.