{"id":9408,"date":"2014-05-23T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9408"},"modified":"2014-05-23T13:30:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:30:22","slug":"friday-tab-clearance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/23\/friday-tab-clearance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Tab Clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some stuff I&#8217;ve had open in Chrome for a while, and want to close before we go out of town for the weekend:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Statistics on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilogs.com\/from_the_lab_bench\/science-bloggers-are-scientists-not-so-fast\/\">the professionalization of science blogging<\/a>, a topic I have <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?s=professionalization\">banged on about in the past<\/a>. Nothing really new, but nice to have it somewhat quantified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Speaking of quantifying things, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/18\/fashion\/the-united-states-of-metrics.html?_r=1\">this New York Times piece on metrics<\/a> is less stupid than I expected. Which is about as high as praise is likely to get for op-eds on this subject. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; If I didn&#8217;t get bored with topics after a while, I could just write endless responses to pieces about the state of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilogs.com\/from_the_lab_bench\/whats-wrong-with-science-journalism\/\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasw.org\/sciencewriters-evolution-or-revolution-science-journalism?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; FQXI <a href=\"http:\/\/fqxi.org\/community\/contest\/video\">wants your physics videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; I was going to dump in some links from the ongoing argument about philosophy and physics, but one of the principal sites is 404-ing right now. Probably for the best. I&#8217;ll just close all those tabs and try to let it go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jamie Hyneman gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.com\/tv-shows\/mythbusters\/about-this-show\/jamie-hyneman-commencement.htm\">commencement speech a few years ago<\/a>, and it&#8217;s very good. As you would expect.<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a partial list of stuff that I&#8217;ve been reading, but wasn&#8217;t moved enough by to  write a whole blog post about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s some stuff I&#8217;ve had open in Chrome for a while, and want to close before we go out of town for the weekend: &#8212; Statistics on the professionalization of science blogging, a topic I have banged on about in the past. Nothing really new, but nice to have it somewhat quantified. &#8212; Speaking of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/23\/friday-tab-clearance-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Tab Clearance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}