Blogging
clock | June 19, 2007On the heels of this post, I was informed of another Web2.0 site for scientists that just launched - SciTalks collects talks and lectures by scientists on a variety of topics. There are already many clips available on the site, which you can rate, or add some from your own collection. You can find out more about the site here and at the site's blog.
aardvarchaeology | June 18, 2007Wednesday 20 June will see the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival appear in all its archaeo/anthro glory at Hominin Dental Anthropology. If you have read or blogged anything good on those themes lately, then make sure to submit it to Jason ASAP. (You are encouraged to submit stuff you've found on other people's blogs.)
clock | June 18, 2007I know Bay Area is a big blogging center - almost as dense with bloggers as Greensboro, NC - but I am not exactly sure which of the bloggers I know actually live there. Since I'll be in San Francisco in July, I'd like to meet some of the local bloggers. Is there a MeetUp? An aggregator? Do local bloggers attend Drinking Liberally? Is there anything happening during the summer at all?
The NC expats in San Francisco, Josh Steiger and Justin Watt, I'm sure I'll meet as we are friends and we'll be in touch. Perhaps I'll get to meet danah boyd (I missed it when she came here to UNC).
And of…
clock | June 17, 2007Matt at Behavioral Ecology Blog is asking what strange searches bring readers to my blog. I was too lazy to go to Google Analytis (changing passwords and stuff), so I just checked the last 100 referees on Sitemeter and I found these:
"japanese quail" newspaper fascist radio
what a fetus of a horse looks like at two months old
green caterpillars
ancient art multiple penetration for women
do pigs have corkscrew penis
Did they find answers to their questions? Dunno, don't think so.
But my old blog, Science And Politics, is much worse - look at the stuff I found from the last 100 hits:
feeling…
clock | June 17, 2007I think I have a profile on Friendster - I don't know, I haven't checked since 2003. I have bare-bones profiles on MySpace, LinkedIn and Change.Org and I will get an e-mail if you "friend" me (and will friend you back), but I do not have time to spend on there. I refuse to even look at all the other social networking sites like Twitter - there are only so many hours in the day.
But I am interested in possible ways of making science communication more interactive and more Webby 2.0, beyond just blogs. Pedro, Carl and Phillip have recently written thoughtful posts about this topic as well.…
clock | June 15, 2007You may have noticed a site called "New York Articles" (http://nyarticles.com/) which "aggregates" content from a bunch of different blogs, including this one as well as a number of other scienceblogs.com blogs. It copies and pastes everything that is in the RSS feed, i.e., everything that is above the fold. As you know, I only occasionally place stuff under the fold, and some people never do.
Sure, it does provide a link at the bottom, so in that way, it is a tiny little bit better than some sites that don't (you may recall this case - see Part I and Part II). But how much better? What…
clock | June 15, 2007Here is the ranking of Top 100 (actually top 176) blogs that cover medicine, nursing and healthcare. Check it out.
clock | June 13, 2007Matt at Berkeley has just moved his Behavioral Biology Blog from the old URL to a new URL. Please change your bookmarks, blogrolls and feeds accordingly.
clock | June 13, 2007Attila (read the entire transcript of our chat) alerted me to a new book review of 'The Open Science 2006' science blogging anthology.
MC and Reed have already blogged about the review.
Let me know what you think. And keep the submissions for the 2007 edition flowing in.
clock | June 12, 2007Sheril Kirshenbaum has officially joined Chris Mooney on "The Intersection" (the first science blog I have ever seen in my life, almost three years ago). Hey, one more North Carolina SciBling can't hurt!
Inkycircus has moved: The Brit ScienceBlogging Trio Fantasticus has moved from here to here. Fix your blogrolls, bookmarks and feeds.
clock | June 12, 2007Scott Gant is on NPR's Diane Rehm show right now, valiantly defending bloggers from grouchy journalists. They will have a podcast up later.
aardvarchaeology | June 11, 2007Antiquity is the world's most respected and widely read academic journal in archaeology, our equivalent of Nature or Science. Its summer issue reached me last Friday and yesterday I brought it to the beach. On the first page of his editorial (entertaining, anti-po-mo, available on-line behind a paywall), Martin Carver attacks creationism and quotes a blog entry from March last year by Aard regular Chris O'Brien of the Northstate Science blog! After quoting Turkish creationist Harun Yahya and describing his propaganda efforts, Carver continues:
Here is Christopher O'Brien, a Forest…
clock | June 8, 2007On this day a year ago, A Blog Around The Clock was born. Twenty-something other bloggers moved to the Scienceblogs.com empire on that same day. My old blogs are still up there, gathering cyberdust, slowly losing Google traffic and rankings, because all of the action is right here. During this year, I posted 2941 posts (that is about 8.12 posts per day) and received 5233 legitimate comments. While my new job is likely to somewhat change the tone of the blog (more science, less politics, most likely), I have no intention of slowing down. I hope you are all still here for the second…
clock | June 8, 2007So, it appears that Koufax Awards will happen. These are the most celebrated blog awards of them all (unless you are a wingnut). I am not exactly sure when all the lists of nominations will be finalized (or if any additions will be allowed at this date - these are 2006 awards, after all) and when the voting will begin.
But I found my blog nominated in several categories, including Best Blog (no chance in hell), Best Post (for this post, for which I have high hopes), Best Series (the BIO101 lecture notes), Best Consonant Level Blog, Best Expert Blog and Most Deserving of Wider Recognition…
clock | June 6, 2007Jason aka Argonaut saw how I got the job and decided to try the same tactic. And, lo and behold, check the first comment on this post! I hope it works out for Jason as it did for me.
aardvarchaeology | June 6, 2007The sixteenth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Testimony of the Spade. Check it out! Archaeology and anthropology beyond your wildest dreams.
"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure
Swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh
Erotic madness beyond any measure
And sensual daydreams to treasure forever"
Richard O'Brien
aardvarchaeology | June 5, 2007David Nessle is a Swedish comic artist, author, editor, translator, sf fan and blogger. His blog is without any serious competition the wittiest one I've encountered in the Swedish language, and I read it religiously. Recent themes of his blogging have been a Saami version of "Ghost Riders in the Sky", an ongoing tiff among Swedish poets, amateurish 60s comics, small-town Swedish food packaging, what to do with all one's books, his collection of plastic action figures and classic dinosaur artist Zdenek Burian. Go read!
clock | June 4, 2007Renegade Evolution has collected the links for yesterday's Blogging For Sex Education day.
clock | June 4, 2007Graduate of the University of Belgrade (Serbia), City University (UK) and UNC-Chapel Hill (USA), with a Masters from University of Belgrade, Danica Radovanovic is currently in Belgrade without a job and she is looking for one either in Serbia, in Western/Northern Europe or in the USA.
Danica is the tireless Serbian pioneer in all things online: blogging, open source, Linux, science blogging, open science, social networking software, online publishing, eZine editing, etc. She is the force behind putting Serbian science online and making it open. She has done research on Internet use in…