Why I'm setting up this blog

Right, well, I'm pretty interested in graph theory. I work in publishing for the journal Nature on new web products, and I need a focussed way of getting my thoughts together on a range of topics that touch on science. I wanted a space that was more focussed than my personal blog.

I have a few specific aims for this blog.

Get some of my thoughts on publishing, science and the philosophy of science out of my head and into an archived public space

Make notes on any academic papers that I read that touch on my area of interests

Motivate me to take all the cruddy code that I have lying around and push it public

I'd like to use this blog as a driver to learning how to visualize and extract sense out of large graphs

I'm hoping to perhaps get to grips to Processing as a means for the last of these three.

In regards to the first of these three, I do intend to draw a dotted line between my personal opinions and bits of science that I find interesting, and projects that I am involved in at work. I like the tao of mac disclaimer, and I hope to tend more towards following this advice than not, however it is not clear to me that I would wish to refrain from commenting on aspects of the work that I do, especially those that reside very much in the public domain.

That said, all opinions voiced here are strictly my own.