A current news piece announces the end of scientific secrecy. Scientists can "forgo the long wait to publish in a print journal and instead to blog about early findings and even post their data and lab notes online. The result: Science is moving way faster and more people are part of the dialogue." Really? I don't publish my lab notebook online. Because I keep it under lock and key? No - I talk to colleagues openly about my work, both within my institution and outside of it. Networking and community have always been part of science. And so has competition. The online world may help enlarge that community in many ways, although my personal opinion is that much of my unpublished research benefits more from the technical advice from close colleagues who have made the effort over the months and years to understand the challenges I'm facing, rather than from quick, anonymous comments on a blog. I do much better discussing big ideas on blogs, where many people can fruitfully join in the discussion, without getting into the nitty gritty details of my lab notebook. That's not to say blogs can't have excellent useful communities condense around them - they can. But it takes work and community policing to make it useful at the level of the lab notebook - maybe even just as much work as it takes to nurture the kinds of in-person networks that have always been the hallmark of scientific communities.