Science Blogging Conference

The North Caroline Science Blogging Conference starts this weekend. It looks like it covers some introductory how-to material, and then dives into issues such as promoting public understanding of science, teaching, and how does blogging interact with research.

If you're put off by the term 'blog' being overused and overhyped, think of the conference as discussing the potential and challenges of a (relatively) new one-to-many and many-to-many communication mechanism and how that could affect the interactions between scientists and the public, and the interactions between scientists.

Basis sets galore

More basis sets that you can shake a stick at over at the EMSL Basis Set Exchange. (Not sure why you would want to shake a stick at basis sets, though.)