I haven’t been flogging the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge as hard this year as in past year, but I do want to post a reminder that the challenge is ongoing. If you donate, the money will go to help deserving school kids; if that’s not enough, it can also earn you cool stuff like: The largest… Continue reading DonorsChoose Reminder: Tuckerize Your Pets, and Program This Blog
Category: Blogs
The Inevitable Hiatus
So, I’m looking at the couple-dozen tabs I have open in Chrome for stuff that I think would be worth blogging about, and the slides for this afternoon’s lecture that need revising, and the student poster that needs to be completed before tomorrow, and the committee stuff that I ought to be doing, and the… Continue reading The Inevitable Hiatus
Why So Many Blogging Astronomers?
Over in Discover-land, Razib has a couple of posts about the content of science blogs, based on an analysis of the content of the top science blogs according to Wikio. Razib’s second post is sparked by a pointed question from the author of the original study: I’m now curious to find out why there are… Continue reading Why So Many Blogging Astronomers?
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
I’m unaccountably sleepy today, and I have work to do, which is keeping me from deep, insightful blogging. So I’m going to punt, and throw this open to you all: Leave me a comment telling me something I don’t already know. Well, OK, since I can’t reasonably expect you to be mind-readers, that should be… Continue reading Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
Who’s the Oldest Science Blogger?
Derek Lowe’s doing a lunch thing at the ACS meeting, and in passing mentions the age of his blog: As the longest-standing chemistry blogger (perhaps the longest standing science blogger, for all I know), I’m glad to have a chance to speak. I was just telling a reader by e-mail that when I started this… Continue reading Who’s the Oldest Science Blogger?
New Physics Blogs
A couple of new-to-me but good physics blogs to point out this week: All That Matters by Joerg Heber. This looks like it will be updated weekly-ish, and has a couple of good entries, including a nice write-up of an ultrafast laser experiment that I had flagged to write about before I got distracted by… Continue reading New Physics Blogs
Virginia Heffernan Is Our Target Audience
There’s a great post at NeuroDojo on the Heffernan business this weekend, and what the take-away ought to be: Yeah, let’s criticize that she didn’t get past the first impression of science blogs. We should expect Heffernan to look before leaping – she writes for the Times, after all, which still has a certain reputation… Continue reading Virginia Heffernan Is Our Target Audience
The Heffernan Conundrum
A lot of Twitter energy was soaked up Friday afternoon by a half stupid article by Virginia Heffernan at the New York Times. Sparked by Sodamageddon, she takes a look at ScienceBlogs for the first time, and doesn’t like what she sees: Hammering away at an ideology, substituting stridency for contemplation, pummeling its enemies in… Continue reading The Heffernan Conundrum
What Physics Topics Would You Like to Read About?
I had intended to write up a recent paper for ResearchBlogging today, but I cleverly forgot to bring either the hard copy of the PDF home last night, which wrecked that plan. And I’ve got real lab work to do today, so it’s not happening at work. This seems like a good opportunity, though, to… Continue reading What Physics Topics Would You Like to Read About?
The State of Science Blogging and Expectations Thereof
The fallout from the Pepsi incident continues to suck all the oxygen out of science blogging, with the latest news being the departure of Bora Zivkovic. If you don’t have time to read his farewell novel, here’s the short version: Seed Media Group management are insufficiently attentive to the blogs, and stuck in an old-media… Continue reading The State of Science Blogging and Expectations Thereof