Blogging
clock | April 1, 2008The trip to the UK is shaping up. Sing up here if you want to meet me during that week, or here if you want to meet me at the pub on April 9th (probably this one) or here if you want to go to the Museum and keep your eyes on those places for updates.
aardvarchaeology | April 1, 2008Over the past few days I've had an exchange with a paper-mag editor that highlighted the extent to which blogging has eroded my respect for printed media.
I was asked by a print mag to write 400 words about archaeology, and they were in a big hurry. I wrote a quick piece (blog-entry length composition sort of comes naturally to me) and submitted it. The editor then began to fuck around with my text. He did things to it that I didn't like at all, and when I reinstated a few key bits of my original wordings he politely asked me to be more cooperative. "I know it's frustrating for a scientist to…
clock | March 31, 2008Words of wisdom (via):
The internet isn't a decoration on contemporary society, it's a challenge to it. A society that has an internet is a different kind of society than a society that doesn't.
I agree. And people, regardless of chronological age, appear to separate along "generational" lines, with the word "generation" really meaning how much they grok the immenseness of the societal change. It changes everything: politics, economics, media, science, environment, public health, business.... The "old" generation thinks of the Internet as yet another place to put their traditional…
aardvarchaeology | March 27, 2008The thirty-seventh Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Hot Cup of Joe. Archaeology and anthropology from outer space!!!
And check out the new Skeptics' Circle!
skookumchick | March 26, 2008I've noticed my posts seem to kill the comments and conversation. Sorry about that. I realize this is really part of the gig of the bigger megaphone, and maybe blogging about stuff people don't want to comment on. Or that they find boring. Or that are too long. Or that are posted on days when people don't want to read. Or something... Hmmm...
I'm not complaining per se, except I find myself surprised a little at missing the community I had on my pseudonymous blog. I felt supported there. Not so much here yet. I thought about what I would risk in my career by blogging as me -- I hadn't…
awild | March 26, 2008This may come as a shock to my regular readers, but I agree with Afarensis that Arthropoda is clearly the best animal phylum.
clock | March 25, 2008While I don't think there is such a thing as Internet Addiction, doing this quick test is fun:
"Your Internet usage is causing significant problems in your life. You should evaluate the impact of the Internet on your life and address the problems directly caused by your Internet usage."
clock | March 24, 2008
Next Triangle blogger meetup is this Wednesday at 6pm at Milltown (307 E. Main St., Carrboro). It is organized by our friends at Orange Politics, for several years the model for local political organizing online. It is likely some of the local politicos and candidates will show up. It is free and open for all and, heck, if you do not want to chat about politics, you don't have to - we'll chat about everything and anything anyway, as we usually do ;-)
clock | March 23, 2008Teaching Your Spouse or Lover to Speak Serbian
It literally rained mud here last Tuesday
Tales of buffoonery, keys
Can Technology make us Happy?
I will never watch The Simpsons again
The stupid, it burns
EMAIL I wish I had sent
Seminar thoughts
But you punch above your weight and you're stronger than you look, And the ending's not the same, they changed it from the book.
clock | March 22, 2008If you live in the UK and would like to meet me on April 9th, go here to organize - add a comment with your preferences of place/time/menu/events....
clock | March 22, 2008Emergence Among the Trees
The actual world needs better writers
...but is it the opiate of the masses?
In safe hands
Alan Keyes and other third party news
Sometimes I Cannot Believe What We Have Allowed to be Done in Our Name
Why Aren't Students Interested in a Career in Science?, Humanistic Science Education and Air Pollution: Regional Influences & the Beijing Olympics
How to reinvent the newspaper business
How to get started in amateur astronomy. Step 1: Get real
Blogging is Subversive and Lessig's Congressional Fixup Plan
Can Polaroid Sunglasses Help You See Venus in the daytime?…
clock | March 21, 2008I know it's an arbitrary number, but it still looks cool:
(Apparently, the 1000000th and the 1000001st visitors arrived simultaneously). Back when I just started I never thought this was even possible.
The millionth visitor came here from Oakland, California, entered the site at this post, and made 17 pageviews in 6 minutes 4 seconds.
aardvarchaeology | March 20, 2008Seed's recently taken up with a new advertiser, Proximic, that tries to put relevant ads into bits of the page that us Sbloggers don't control ourselves. Unfortunately, they do this in a mechanised manner that treats "relevance" in a simplistic way. This means that Sbloggers who criticise something may find their sidebars advertising this very thing.
As a Firefox user, I never see the ads on my blog and I have no idea what they are like. Dear Reader, if something turns up in the ads that you suspect that I may not like much, would you please tell me? Because I can get rid of individual ads.…
sciencewoman | March 20, 2008Yesterday morning Kate birthed a healthy wonderful baby girl. Go on over and congratulate her.
clock | March 19, 2008Pre-accountability
Getting Jaked
Space Kimchi (but can they fix sarma on the Space Station?)
Flare Research - Well damn...
When Life Needs Porpoise
Live from Seattle: Fatal intracerebral mass bleeding edition
So my lovely oldest is 16 and a half...
A Few Important Posts (about animal rights)
Ocelot - Salvador Dali's pet
Three levels of spiders
A sustainable culture begins with a healthy, sustainable attitude
Sharks and Condit
More Komodo Dragon Babies!
3/19/2003 - 3/19/2008
Weaver, Roseman and Stringer back at it with Neandertals, Natural Selection and a time of divergence
Cultural…
clock | March 18, 2008In one of those "if you like this you may also like this" e-mails from Amazon.com, I got a suggestion I may like a book called Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World's Top Bloggers. So, I took a look. I've been blogging since 2004, so I thought I knew who the top bloggers were and could find it interesting to see what they had to say.
As it turns out, the title is a misnomer. It should be "......American Top TECH Bloggers". I recognize three names (Anderson, Scoble, Rubel).
Perhaps they say interesting things in the interviews, as observers of the blogosphere. But, I am not…
clock | March 18, 2008Scenes from the science fair
Funerals Make Me Glad to Be an Atheist
Laurie Garrett talks global health at U of Iowa
Small Bodied Humans From Palau
Chinese Water Torture
Wheat and climate change
The Quail and They can hide, but they won't run
Democrats Are Losing Perspective
Let's see, what to call this....OK, how about 'racist bullshit'?
What alien can you make up?
Sunday stroll: frozen puddles
EEA 2008: Butterfly Conservation
Ruby wants to know
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature
John Edwards to endorse? Which candidate passes the moral test of our generation?
A Responsible…