As I was scanning the internet this morning for news articles and blog posts to comment on, I came up with four good candidates. I spent the next 30 minutes trying to decide whether to write a post discussing a single article (like this), or just write a sentence or two about each post, with links to all of them (like this).
It occurred to me that I actually have no idea which type of news post CogDaily readers would prefer to see. So, in typical Cognitive Daily fashion, I decided to make a poll.
One point about the last poll option: the research reports require significantly more effort, so if we dropped the news posts, we would not be able to add additional research reports.
And speaking of voting, don't forget to vote for ScienceBlogs' own Shelley Batts, who is a finalist for a college blogging competition.
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I still think the research reports are best, but if not those, then I like the brief commentary, not many links. If you give us too many links then we will be spending even more time away from our work than we already are reading each one!
I like both, but I do generally prefer the lengthier posts. I don't always have time to follow links to other articles, and your in-depth posts about what's out there helps me sort out which ones are priorities.
If you've got several solid candidates, though, perhaps you could choose one for the more lengthy write-up, and leave the others as "In other news" links at the end? That would include all of them without relegating them all to a link list which would be more likely to be skipped over.
Faith, I like that idea. A nice way to combine both styles of posting.
I agree with Katherine & Faith... I come for the research summaries, but will often read an "in the news" discussions if the mood strikes. I prefer the more in-depth posts about news, but sometimes it's great just to have a bunch of links with 1 -2 sentence recaps. It's "quick and dirty" for both blogger and reader, but still informative.
I'd rather see some quick take-aways from a diversity of sources, ideally in a common story thread. No need for lengthy essays, and no list of links that I won't have time to read. Simply the key insights/ take-aways/ facts of the day, from your perspective.