One of the big arguments in favour of an Electronic Lab Notebook is of course the ability to share information with your co-workers.  However, despite the obvious benefits of sharing, there’s always the ‘cultural’ issue to deal with as well, i.e. how happy am I to share my ideas, records and data with my co-workers? [...]

After the IQPC ELN conference, I’ve seen quite a number of discussions regarding it popping-up in a variety of other tools. I see comments here in TheIntegratedLab from John, just as one example. I did not attend that conference but I get the impression that people came out excited from it and that they learned something.

We now spend more time communicating with and influencing strangers than people close to us and the world continues to change. Can we make it stop? Well, come to your own conclusions but read the entire posting to see what I have to say about it.