Here at NGS, we’re getting reading for the ScienceOnline2010 conference this coming weekend. I’ll be in RTP on Thursday evening and will be posting updates here as well as on my personal Twitter account.

Graham posted some great tips for those attending the conference virtually over at his blog yesterday. To help keep you connected with the conference without actually being there, we’ve added the ScienceOnline2010 Twitter hashtag (#scio10) feed to the NGS sidebar. This way, everytime you visit NGS over the weekend, you can easily see what’s being talked about.

It’s simple to post automatic updates from the ScienceOnline2010 hashtag feed on your WordPress blog. The code below will import and display items using the built-in WordPress function, wp_rss(), which provides WordPress with feed-fetching and feed-parsing functionality. All you need to do is place the following code below (download here) where you want the feed displayed within your theme template file (e.g., sidebar.php for the homepage or sidebarsingle.php for single article pages). You can customize the number of items posted on line 11.

For FriendFeed users, we’ve also added real-time discussion from the ScienceOnline2010 FriendFeed group further down the sidebar.

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