My opinion is that conferences should ask each speaker if they'd be willing to be reported on by anybody, print or on-line. If they say yes then precede their talk with an announcement of that fact or print it in the agenda. I find it hard to believe that any scientist will lose out with more publicity. There's always the possibility that the reporting will be wrong, but I've read lots of misleading print media reporting on scientific topics, so that problem already exists. The bloggers present at scientific meetings are most likely to be scientists themselves so I suspect they'll do a good job. If they don't then they'll get corrected by comments or by the presenters themselves afterwards.
Cold Spring Harbor's decision is to force bloggers to get permission in advance just like journalists before writing about a speaker. I think this is a mistake. Instead of restricting bloggers just like journalists, they should make journalists as free as bloggers.
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