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clock | January 18, 2007
Steve Gunn, the Metro Editor at the Charlotte Observer, Erika Wittchen and John Beimler are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 17, 2007I will mirror this post on the Science Blogging Conference homepage. Let me know if I missed you (i.e., if you ever mentioned or intend to mention the conference on your blog). This will be updated until everyone is exhausted! Because it is going to be so long, I'll keep most of it under the fold (click on "Read more..."):
Pre-History of the Idea:
Science And Politics: Science BloggerCon?
BlogTogether: Gearing up for fall blogging events
A Blog Around The Clock: Blogging in The Triangle, NC
A Blog Around The Clock: Science Blogging - what it can be
The Announcement:
A Blog Around The Clock…
clock | January 17, 2007
Charles Harris from Natural History Magazine, Lorraine Cramer of Microblogology and Mary-Russell Roberson are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 17, 2007My blogfather Publius is moving! Legal Fiction is over (though it appears the valuable archives will remain available). He is joining the excellent crew at Obsidian Wings - Congratulations!
And PZ is promising to reduce the volume of his blogging as he is writing a book, which we will all eagerly await. His announcement was followed by another seven posts immediately after! Self-control did not last long, I guess....
clock | January 17, 2007
This is what I posted on February 23, 2006, about eleven months ago. As you can see, both from my post, and from the comments, the idea was to have some kind of BloggerCon devoted to science blogging, almost like a giant MeetUp where a bunch of science bloggers can get together, finally match the names (and online handles) with faces, chat and gossip, show off their work, and have lots of beer.
But, what's the point (apart from the great fun that would be)? How does one sell this idea to sponsors? It seemed that this idea was doomed for a quick death.
But then, Anton Zuiker came into the…
clock | January 17, 2007So, RPM, Razib and Chris are promoting the idea of Just Science, meaning that from Monday, February 5, till the end of Sunday, February 11, we should write only about science itself, and not about pseudoscience, quackery, religion, politics of science etc.
This is my 1864th post on this blog. Out of that, there are perhaps 4-5 debunking some kind of Creationism, and 4-5 debunking some other pseudoscience. A drop in the ocean! There is a little bit more politics (but usually not of science), and several posts on religion/atheism. Everything else is either science or "chatter", i.e., links…
clock | January 17, 2007
Michelle Langston, John Streck and David Ketelsen are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 17, 2007Go say Hello to Signout! And send your entries for next week's Grand Rounds right there.
clock | January 17, 2007
Brad Herring of the Museum of Life and Science and John Blake of P2LS are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 16, 2007Here is the list of posts in this series so far:
Mean, Median, and Mode
Normal Distribution
Force
Gene
Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
Evolution
Clade
What do you want me to write about? Circadian stuff? Group selection? Animal physiology and behavior?
clock | January 16, 2007
Catherine Clabby, the science reporter for Raleigh News & Observer and Rob Zelt are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 16, 2007
Trisha Crutchfield and Joy Widmann are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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purepedantry | January 16, 2007Our own Bora Zivkovic, proprietor of A Blog Around the Clock, has been editting an anthology of the best science blog posts of 2006. Yours truly was lucky enough to be included for this post on Floyd Landis several months ago. Here is the editor's announcement.
The book -- entitled The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006 -- goes on sale today at Lulu.com, so please go and check it out.
There are some incredibly good posts included in this book. This stuff is why I enjoy writing and reading science blogs so much, the opportunity to get really in depth about a subject…
clock | January 16, 2007
Kirk Ross, columnist for (and former editor of) The Independent Weekly, as well as hard-blogger on Exile on Jones Street, The Mill and Cape Fear Mercury is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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aardvarchaeology | January 15, 2007Coturnix over at A Blog Around the Clock announces that the 2006 Science Blogging Anthology has now been published. The title is The Open Laboratory. Very apt! As mentioned here before, the volume contains a piece by yours truly. Get it while it's fresh!Zivkovic, Bora. 2007. The Open Laboratory. The best writing on science blogs 2006. Chapel Hill, NC: Lulu. 336 pp.[More blog entries about books, science, lulu; böcker, vetenskap.]
clock | January 15, 2007Yes! It is finally here! What you have all been waiting for, impatiently, for three weeks! The Science Blogging Anthology is now for sale. Go to Lulu.com by clicking here (or click on the picture of the book to your right) and place your order! You can choose to buy a PDF to download (but do you really want to print out 336 pages!?) or order the book with its pretty cover - it takes only a couple of days to arrive at your doorstep.
You can see here how it all got started, just three weeks ago, smack in the middle of the holidays when nobody was online and traffic was down to a third of…
clock | January 15, 2007
Greg Corrin and Alex Gunn are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 15, 2007We had a minor glitch with the cover. It is in the process of getting fixed right now. Stay tuned - the unveiling will be shortly....
clock | January 15, 2007
Kristen Novak and Bharat Chandramouli are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | January 15, 2007
Alicia Cypress of The Washington Post and
Newsweek Interactive and Sarah Greene of the New York Times are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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