monday night was spent at HSG talking about open source, community dynamics, reputational games, marketing strategies, scalability issues, entrepreneurial aspects, parallels to the scientific process, open source versus open standards, and many more which i since forgot. in attendance were.after a blogging pitch, michi and myself demonstrated the use of blogs for scholarly communication. with success, it seems, some are already toying with blogs, and with luck we will get blogs.ifb.unisg.ch up and running soon.