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Highly technical scientific debates are usually hashed out behind closed doors--in labs, in subscription-based journals, in the hallways at conferences attended only by a few specialized researchers. But in May the rest of us saw three real academic arguments playing out in public, largely via Twitter, blogs and wikis

What the heck is Mirosoft's "Tulalip," and what exactly is it going to be capable of? Its code name is "Tulalip," and according to a green splash page that has since disappeared from a Microsoft-owned Web address ( www.soci.com ), Tulalip is some sort of yet to be fully defined "social search" hybrid that is part application, part search engine. Again according to the disappearing splash page (which, don't worry, lives on in screen grabs republished all over the Web), the whatever-it-is would allow users to: Read Tweets from your timeline.See who you follow and follow new people.Update your profile.Post Tweets for you