A little while back, there was some discussion of what science blogging should be, where the question of what draws the most traffic came up. A couple of people said they see more traffic from “real” science posts than from other trivia, in contrast to my claim that I see more traffic from other stuff.… Continue reading What Kind of Blogging Brings the Most Traffic?
Category: Blogs
Interstellar Economics
Paul Krugman is now a famour economist, but many years ago, he was “an oppressed assistant professor, caught up in the academic rat race.” So, he did what any good academic would do in that situation: he wrote a silly paper to cheer himself up. In this case, a paper discussing the issues that arise… Continue reading Interstellar Economics
Pimp Me New Blogs
Over at Cosmic Variance, Sean has a post highlighting some physics blogs that he’s adding to the blogroll. Which reminds me that I’ve been remiss in updating my own links– I’ve recently started reading Swans On Tea regularly, and he’s got some great science content. Via Tom, I’ve also discovered Skulls in the Stars which… Continue reading Pimp Me New Blogs
Do You Feel Super?
ScienceBlogs is launching a new “Super Reader” program, where each blogger can nominate two readers as “Super Readers” who will be given the ability to tag three posts a week from all of ScienceBlogs for a special RSS feed (this will be done using del.icio.us). This is envisioned as a first step toward greater interactivity… Continue reading Do You Feel Super?
True Science Blogging, or “Hey, Check Out This Navel!”
The kerfuffle over the Bayblab incident has produced no end of discussion here and elsewhere. Hilariously, this included a lengthy discussion of why they see ScienceBlogs as cliquish, conducted entirely in the private back-channel forum that nobody else can read. Irony: it’s like gold-y and bronze-y, but made of iron. I realize that there’s nothing… Continue reading True Science Blogging, or “Hey, Check Out This Navel!”
The State of Science Blogging
We haven’t had a good navel-gazing kerfuffle around here in a while, but not to worry– Bayblab comes to the rescue with a broadside against the current state of science blogging, as epitomized by ScienceBlogs: If you examine the elephant in the room, ScienceBlogs, the trend is maintained: politics, religion books, technology, education and music… Continue reading The State of Science Blogging
Social Networking… of SCIENCE!
There’s been some discussion recently of ScienceBlog reader get-togethers, and the question was raised of what ScienceBlogs ought to do to facilitate this. Of course, this is exactly the sort of thing that Facebook is useful for, and there is, in fact, a ScienceBlogs Facebook group. If you’re a Facebook user, and interested in that… Continue reading Social Networking… of SCIENCE!
Theory of Blogging Faculty
Over at evolgen, RPM is wondering about the disciplinary distribution of bloggers: I have an intuition, backed up by absolutely no evidence, that my particular area of interest (evolutionary genetics) has more faculty blogging about stuff related to their research than other fields. This is most likely the result of my interest in those blogs,… Continue reading Theory of Blogging Faculty
A Series of Tubes
Over at Terra Sigillata, Abel Pharmboy has live-blogged his own vasectomy. Why did he do this? Your guess is as good as mine. Why am I linking to it? Misery loves company. Until I figure out a way to scrub that knowledge out of my brain, the best I can do is make sure that… Continue reading A Series of Tubes
Cross-Linking and Statistics
Henry Farrell is doing some substantive political science blogging over at the Monkey Cage, looking at a paper by his co-blogger Eszter Hargittai and her colleagues. They did a really imprssive amount of work to look at the linking habits of liberal and conservative bloggers, and Henry zeroes in on one of the findings in… Continue reading Cross-Linking and Statistics