In which we look back at a very political, perhaps excessively political year on the blog. ———— I’m picking up the pace of my recap because I’d like to get through as much as possible before the actual tenth anniversary of the blog this Friday. I won’t get through every year, but I’m going to… Continue reading Ten Years Before the Blog: 2007-2008
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Ten Years Before the Blog: 2005-2006 (Part II, the Start of ScienceBlogs)
In which we look at the end of the Steelypips era and the launch of ScienceBlogs. ———— Before the Great Upgrade derailed things completely for a month, I was working on a recap of this blog’s history, and had gotten up through the end of 2005, which marked the end of my time as an… Continue reading Ten Years Before the Blog: 2005-2006 (Part II, the Start of ScienceBlogs)
Spiffy New Digs, Suggestions Wanted
So, as you may or may not have noticed, ScienceBlogs has gotten a makeover. If you read via RSS, you might not notice anything, but if you come to the blog itself, you’ll see a new look. The previous three-column layout is gone, and posts on the front page now show only short excerpts and… Continue reading Spiffy New Digs, Suggestions Wanted
Ten Years Before the Blog: 2005-2006 (Part I)
Continuing the blog recap series, we come to the “split year” of 2005-2006. The blog was initially launched in late June, so that’s when I’m starting the years for purposes of these recaps, but ScienceBlogs launched in January 2006, so this year was half Steelypips and half ScienceBlogs. This post will cover the Steelypips half,… Continue reading Ten Years Before the Blog: 2005-2006 (Part I)
Ten Years Before the Blog: 2004-2005
Delayed again by the need to do actual, you know, work, here’s a look back at the third year of this blog’s existence. You can also read posts covering year one and year two. 2004-2005 was the last complete year before the move to ScienceBlogs in January of 2006, after which the making of these… Continue reading Ten Years Before the Blog: 2004-2005
Ten Years Before the Blog: 2003-2004
The schedule called for this to appear last Friday, but as I was just back from a funeral, yeah, not so much. I had already gone through and bookmarked a whole slew of old posts, though, so here’s a recap of the 2003-2004 blogademic year (starting and ending in late June). This year saw a… Continue reading Ten Years Before the Blog: 2003-2004
Ten Years Before the Blog: 2002-2003
As threatened a little while ago, this is the first of ten hopefully weekly posts looking back at the ten years this blog has been in operation. This one covers the period from the very first post on June 22, 2002 to June 21, 2003. When I started doing this look back, I was more… Continue reading Ten Years Before the Blog: 2002-2003
Ten Years Before the Blog: Historical Recap
June 22, 2012 will mark the tenth anniversary of the founding of this blog. While I would like to one day be famous enough to be able to staple together a collection of loosely related blog posts and call it a book, I’m not there yet. This particular arbitrary numerical signifier does, however, seem worth… Continue reading Ten Years Before the Blog: Historical Recap
This Week in the Journal of Previously Solved Problems
Over at the Scholarly Kitchen, Kent Anderson complains about the uselessness of comments on journals: Comments in online scientific journals have been notoriously poor — either too much material of uneven quality or too little discussion to amount to a hill of beans. All too often, commenting has to be shut down because internecine and… Continue reading This Week in the Journal of Previously Solved Problems
How to Wreck Your Career With Social Media
This was the title of the group discussion I led at Boskone on Saturday, and since it’s probably relevant to the interests of people reading this blog, I figure it’s worth posting a quick recap. Of course, between the unfamiliar format and Friday’s travel with the Incredible Screaming Pip, I didn’t actually make any notes… Continue reading How to Wreck Your Career With Social Media