Blogging
clock | August 11, 2006The second ConvergeSouth conference on blogging and journalism will be held on the NC A&T University in Greensboro, NC on Saturday, October 14, 2006. Check out the homepage and blog and register soon. It is going to be even more of an Unconference than last year.
Although it is expected that many in attendance will be from the vibrant local blogging community, it is by no means restricted to the South. Last year, we had people coming in from California, New England and abroad, so if you are interested in the blogging/podcasting world, this is a place to be.
I have blogged about the…
clock | August 11, 2006Seed ScienceBlogs are liveblogging the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto from August 13th-18th.
Two special correspondents on the ground, and our own Tara Smith of Aetiology will post daily commentary on a blog specially dsigned for this occasion - AIDS at 25.
Quite fittingly, the AskTheScienceBlogger question of the week is also about AIDS, and I am sure that a number of my SciBlings will write about the topic in addition to just answering the question, so you will have plenty of opportunity to be informed and educated about AIDS over the next several days. And, if you have not…
clock | August 11, 2006The most recent addition to the stable of Seed ScienceBloggers is Molecule Of The Day - better living through chemistry! Go say Hello!
clock | August 9, 2006In less than two weeks, Archy (the person - John McKay, not the blog, nor the cockroach) is going to have a biiiiiig birthday party.
He is not asking for presents - he only wants you to come to his place for the party and help him reach a goal.
And while you are there, you are supposed to look around and read - there is a lot of good stuff there!
clock | August 7, 2006The Archaean Zone (formerly known as Wolverine Tom), Sporulaand Complex Medium are back in action after longish hiatus.
clock | August 7, 2006In the comments to this recent post, Pedro Beltao points out his recent post - Opening up the scientific process - which I would suggest you read.
First reaction will probably be - ah, how idealistic! But it will make you think, I believe. Many elements are already happening, e.g., open-source journals, open comments on online journal articles, as well as blogs and wikis that report research in real time, e.g., Useful Chem Experiments, RRResearch and UsefulChem Wiki.
The world of academic science is slow-moving and resistant to change, but it is already changing nonetheless. And, as each…
clock | August 6, 2006Tim Lambert alerts us that a new book about blogging, Uses Of Blogs, edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now out.
Joanne Jacobs, John Quiggin, Mark Bahnisch, Jean Burgess and Melissa Gregg are some of the contributors to the book, looking at various uses of blogs, from personal to political, with quite a heavy emphasis on what I am interested in - the uses in academia and teaching. Unfortunately, there is no chapter about uses of blogs by scientists and/or in science, be it reasearch or teaching or popularization of science.
You can get the more complete information, including the…
clock | August 3, 2006Have you been reading The Rude Pundit lately. He's got a fantastic line-up of guestbloggers, all female, and all rejoicing in the opportunity to be as rude possible. The latest today, It's all about sex by Pam. Read them all.
clock | August 2, 2006You should really go now and read the "Meet The Enemy" interview with me on a satirical blog called God, Country & Apple Pie. Check out the rest of the far right-wing Christian, anti-science, fascist-theocratic fare there as well.
clock | August 2, 2006David Dobbs is an accomplished science journalist and writer. I am sure you will enjoy reading hs new blog, right here on SEED scienceblogs - Smooth Pebbles!
So, go say Hi! He's already moved the archives from his old blog to the new place so there's plenty of good stuff to read already.
clock | August 1, 2006Wow! In just a couple of days, SEED scienceblogs.com moved up from #100 to #78 on Technorati Most Favourited list. While the numbers are still small it is easy to game the system, but in the long run, the most popular blogs will emerge on top. If you click on this and make SB one of your favourites - and just one more person is enough for this - we'll overtake PowerLine!
Update: You did it! Thank you! Now on to greater hights, to reach Wonkette and Pharyngula and BoingBoing!
clock | August 1, 2006 I posted this on the Edwards blog on Tuesday February 10, then re-posted it on JREG, then re-posted it again on my own blog here on August 25, 2004. It was a response to IM-like spelling in one-line comments by the newly-arrived Deaniacs who displaced the lengthy, well-written, thoughtful discussions we used to have on the campaign blog before Dean conceded in Wisconsin and told his supporters to support Edwards for the rest of the primaries:
Language is a mirror into a people's culture. English is a beautiful language, capable of imparting meaning with a sharpness of a stainless steel…
clock | July 30, 2006Chad points to an article about the way book publishers are still clinging to the old ways of doing business and are, thus, suspicious of the whol Long Tail idea.
My copy of the book arrived a few weeks ago and is waiting (in a long line) to be read in the future, but I have read John Anderson's blog for quite a while now and I think I grok the idea of Long Tail. It applies to blogs, just as much as it applies to sales of movies, music or books.
As for books, the future is publishing-on-demand. No need for stokpiling books. If you use a publisher like Lulu.com, you can easily publish your…
clock | July 29, 2006In 50 days of its existence, this blog has received 636 comments. The SEED sciencebloggers already promote each other a lot, so I want to give a shout-out to my most regular commenters who are NOT themselves SB bloggers or SEED staff (or myself - after all I posted the most comments while responding to others). I happily include people who I disagree with here - spam and trolling has been deleted long ago and is not counted in the totals.
Plus, at some point in the future (perhaps on December 31st), I will do this again and the person with the greatest number of comments will get to…
clock | July 29, 2006Here is the forth and final part of the introduction to SEED sciencebloggers. Check out the first part, the second part and the third part if you have missed them before. There ain't no eleven left, so today we have only ten (but I hear there will be a couple more soon....):
Jake Young of Pure Pedantry is a neuroscience student and the founder of The Synapse. His interests are broad, as in Economics as Evolution, Practice over Innate Ability, Chronicles of Higher Ed Symposium on Academic Blogging and Hummers vs. Hybrids Redux: On Corporate Research, but you really need to read everything…
clock | July 28, 2006Here is the third part of the introduction to SEED sciencebloggers, the next eleven (check out the first part and the second part if you have missed them before) of my SiBlings:
Razib of Gene Expression and I go back a long way of .....friendly disagreement on pretty much everything. But he certainly knows his population genetics inside out. Check out Bumping uglies with the Neandertal (aka but they did interbreed!), The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, preface & chapter 1 or Introgression, what's in a word? to get your Mendel, Fisher, Haldane and Wright education.
MarkCC of Good…
clock | July 27, 2006Orcinus: Conserving orcas, and humans too
Shakespeare's Sister: Off-Limits Humor
Echidne Of The Snakes: Divorce -- Preparing For Travels in Wingnuttia
clock | July 27, 2006Here is the second part of the introduction to SEED sciencebloggers, the next eleven (check out the first part if you have missed it yesterday). I hope you like them and appreciate the breadth and depth of writing here (so, yes, if you have a blog, and you are registered with Technorati - which if you have a blog you should be - please make scienceblogs.com, as well as any or all individual blogs here that you may like, one of your favourites)
Have you checked Digital Biology Fridays on Discovering Biology in a Digital World yet? Sandra Porter shows you how YOU can do molecular biology at…
clock | July 26, 2006Since my move here to SEED scienceblogs, I made a mistake of assuming, quite wrongly, that most of my visitors are aslo science bloggers (or people interested in science) who, almost by definition, regularly read all of the other SEED sciencebloggers as well.
I forgot that some of the readers are not new readers, but people who came over here with me, people who have read one of my three old blogs for a long time before my move.
They may be liberal/progressive bloggers, or fans of John Edwards, or North Carolina bloggers, or Balkans bloggers, or edubloggers or academic bloggers. Not to…