What is the definition of publication?

    Here's my quandary for the day -- I have an online interface for my SMTP survey data that allows users to do things like see current overall results, investigate the state of the worker nodes used to perform the measurements, and perform lookups against the data. However, I'm worried that I can't put this interface online because that might count as prior publication, and therefore preclude me from presenting information derived from the survey at academic conferences. I have a similar question about blog posts as well -- does blogging about something I am investigating mean that I can't publish it later?

    This must be a common question. How do other researchers handle these sort of publication issues?

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