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1/4 of the blogs on Sb have shut down and several are on strike or hiatus waiting to see what happens.

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Sorting through the 320 photos I took at the Oakland general strike today will take some time, as will getting all my thoughts together for a blog post. Meanwhile, here's a mini-essay I posted on twitter. Each point was scheduled to go up at half-hour intervals, starting at 8 am, running…
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It's a woo-infested sewer, a cesspit of inanity and exploitation, and they cheat their writers. There is a strike/boycott in operation. This is what you get when an unprincipled, opportunistic hack like Arianna Huffington runs the show. Guild tells HuffPost writers: 'Don't work for free' The…
ON STRIKE! It's come to this. We've been facing a steady erosion of talent here at Scienceblogs, with the loss of good people like Carl Zimmer and Ed Yong a while back, and with the very abrupt departure of 15 bloggers after the recent PepsiCo debacle — an event that damaged the reputation of this…

As is usually the case, courage, cooperation and emotion-neutral decision making will be seen, in hindsight, to have carried the day. This applies to a wide range of actual outcomes.

Science blogging will find a way to survive and thrive, I am sure.

I am not expressing faith, here. Rather, observation and experience. Reality has a way of edging aside the competition even if only an inch at a time. It's the cumulative affect which is also the common thread of science historically.

--this comment also posted at Tomorrow's Table mere moments ago

By Crudely Wrott (not verified) on 21 Jul 2010 #permalink