Well, I didn't aim to point to third party data repositories, though I agree that's also an important discussion. In our labs, people think it's safer to have all their data in their hard disk. They didn't really aware of the backup problems, version issues or data structures and organizations. The most important concern is whether they can pull out the data when they want. This fundamental thing is not easy to achieve in the cloud, which is a complete new systems to most bench scientists.

Talking back my worries of using LaBlog to record high throughput data, I'm afraid it would be too much to ask bench scientist to create an entry for every experimental result. Even if all data is typed as entries, it doesn't help with downstream experiments. So, it will soon come to a point where LaBlog must be associated with some other web services out there that helps handle the recording and extraction of the data. However, at the moment, these web services simply do not exist. Flickr may be a good option for photo handling, however, Flickr alone doesn't seem fit for scientific photos which requires at least one control for comparison.

I do support open notebook science or at least e-notebook science. However, I think we should enable the technical side before encouraging common practice. It would be a bit too much to switch from tools to tools while you are focusing on your research question. That's what I mean by 'scientist would prefer a stable and controllable system for recording their data' in the comment of Cameron's last post.