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goodmath | April 25, 2007(This issue came to a happy conclusion. After the uproar generated by this being publicized by so many blogs and websites, the publisher got in touch with Shelley, gave her permission to use the figures, apologized, and promised to do some internal legal education so that this won't happen again.)
This doesn't affect me personally, but my friend and fellow ScienceBlogger Shelly Batts ofRetrospectacle has been threatened by
lawyers from the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, one of the Wiley group's journals, for reproducing a part of one figure from an article that she was…
tlambert | April 21, 2007Mrs Deltoid wrote the following and told me that I had to post it on my blog. I'm not sure who it is directed at.
I'm a blogger, gonna try some rap.
XYZ put me on the map.
I'm a V.I.B
I'm on the list
I'm a VIP
you get the gist.
Piss me off and it'll be G.G.
Just try it- you will see.
Yeah I'm a blogger,
Unk Unk
One wrong word and you'll be sunk
My kids say I'm uncool
A nerd who acts like he's still at school
watchin' Bab5 on DVD
and listening to Beatles avidly
But it's my life and I'm gonna livit
Blogging takes time and I'm gonna givit,
Cause I have fans, I have a lot
A million hits is what…
loom | April 17, 2007It's getting harder and harder to remember what it was like to write about science in the pre-Web 2.0 days. Back then (i.e., 2004), I'd come across an intriguing paper, I'd interview the authors, I'd get comments--supportive or nasty--from other experts in the field, and then publish an article distilling everything I'd learned. It would take months or years for the authors to follow up on their work or for other scientists to publish their own papers attacking or supporting the original research.
How quaint. Let's take a look at an experience I had yesterday. I was reading a blog called The…
tlambert | April 13, 2007Craig Harper has created a list of the top 100 Australian blogs based on Technorati rankings (which are based on the number of blogs that link to you). It's in his right side bar near the bottom.
Of course that are lots of other ways to rank blogs, so Meg has re-ordered it using Alexa rankings (which are based on the number of visits from people who have installed the Alexa tool bar.)
goodmath | April 8, 2007 This post is a quick moderation update, caused by recent crap going on in the comment threads involving George "First Scientific Proof of God" Shollenberger, combined with my recent change of employment.
Before changing jobs, my old employer was kind enough to allow me to write this blog, but they did not want me to ever do anything on the blog that allowed them to be identified as my employer. The idea was that since the blog was something I did on my own time, without any oversight from them, they wanted it to be clear that the blog had no connection with them. My new employer, Google,…
j7uy5 | April 7, 2007
Obviously a follow-up to my last post,
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Blog?
Like the Why Blog? post, this is partly a repetition of something I
posted before, at least once. But some of these points bear
repeating, if only to remind myself.
One thing is that I always use an
href="http://www.nvu.com/index.php">free-standing editor
to write posts. The reason is simple: it lets me save
frequently, and to save to my own disk. I'm less likely to
lose something I'd rather not lose. Of course I also use
Firefox, too. No need to elaborate on…
tlambert | April 4, 2007I cannot resist responding to Scott McLemee vlogging his watching of Ann Althouse vlogging her watching of American Idol.
goodmath | April 1, 2007Fuck.
Ok. Now I'm seriously pissed off. What a miserable way to ruin god-damned april fools day.
omnibrain | March 20, 2007It was one year ago today that I made the first post to Omni Brain. I never imagined we would do this well.
In the last year Omni Brain has undergone many many changes, the biggest of which have been Sandra of Neurofuture fame joining the blog, and moving to ScienceBlogs.
We started with not-even 3000 page views in our first full month and now receive tens of thousands of page views and visitors - which is pretty great for a smart ass little science blog! Our Technorati ranking has also grown by leaps and bounds; near 14,000 today.
Thanks everyone, for reading and for all your lively…
goodmath | March 10, 2007 I just realized that I've been writing this blog for a whole year! I managed to miss the actual
anniversary, which was on thursday. It's hard to believe that I've been doing it for a full year.
When I started Good Math/Bad Math on Blogger, I honestly believed that I'd probably last a couple
of weeks; maybe a month at best. And I didn't expect to find a lot of readers - my best guess was
that I'd be lucky if I got a couple of dozen readers a day. After all - what I write about is math - in particular, mostly extremely abstract math. Not exactly something that I expected a lot of people to be…
goodmath | March 9, 2007 The third edition of the Carnival of Mathematics is out: this time around, it's hosted atMichi's Place.
The next edition will be up in two weeks at my fellow ScienceBlogger Jason Rosenhouse's EvolutionBlog.
j7uy5 | February 25, 2007I know that the SB site can be overwhelming; there is a lot here, and
it can take a lot of time to go through it all. Now, for
those of you who like to use feeds, e.g. Google Reader, you can get a
"Select" view of what might be the best posts. The method for
choosing them is secret. But unlike other "Select" services,
this one is free.http://feeds.feedburner.com/scienceblogs/ScienceblogsSelect
If unsure how to use this, try going to www.google.com/reader, either
sign in or create an account, then click Add Subscription, then copy
and past the link above.
There are many other ways to do it…
goodmath | February 20, 2007 So as many other folks have been pointing out, the Koufax awards have come out with their "Best Expert Blog" nominations, and I'm incredibly pleased to say that GM/BM was nominated!
In case you're not familiar, the Koufaxes are one of the really serious, prestigious web-awards, aimed primarily at the left-leaning blogosphere.
I realize that my chances of actually winning are pretty damned slim; on the other hand, since PZ is disqualified because he won last year, that means that the rest of us have a chance. Voting isn't open yet, but when it is, I'll mention it here. I would really like…
goodmath | February 20, 2007
Many of my fellow ScienceBloggers have recently declared their membership inOrder of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique. I've been busy, so I haven't been able to get around to signing up until now. That's a shame, since some of the badges appear to have been designed specifically for me!
So, here's my list of badges.
The "Talking About Science" badge. Just ask my wife, my parents, my friends, strangers who've bumped into me on the street...
The "I Blog About Science" badge. Ok, so I really blog about math - even if you don't really believe that math is a…
goodmath | February 19, 2007Just a quick reminder: the second Carnival of Mathematics is coming up this friday, to be hosted here at GM/BM. If you've written any math related articles, get me a link by thursday at the latest. You can either send it to me here at markcc at gmail.com, or via the carnival submission form.
tlambert | February 9, 2007Glenn Reynolds wrongly claimed that I'd said that 59 was similar to 88. I hadn't, so he tried to wriggle out by pretending that he was just kidding), adding this:
In a related matter, rumors that Lambert once asked a date for "96" on the ground that it's "similar to" 69 are probably false.
Randy Paul emailed Reynolds, suggesting that he "Grow up". Reynolds shot back:
Jeez, get a sense of humor. Lambert and I go back over a decade,
and he's been an insufferable prick for all that time. I usually
ignore him, and this time I decided to jab back a bit.
And Reynolds sure does like to jab at…
goodmath | February 1, 2007 Finally, the math geeks of the blogosphere are going to have a carnival of our own!
Alon Levy of Abstract Nonsense (which I really need to add to my blogroll!) has taken the initiative and started the Carnival of Mathematics. The very
first edition will appear on February 9th.
If you've got any math-related posts, send them to Alon with "Carnival of Mathematics" on the subject line.
goodmath | January 18, 2007I've gotten complaints from a bunch of commenters about problems with comments getting thrown into the moderation queue by the spam filter. Things with too many links, or with certain text properties, were getting caught even though they are clearly not spam.
In order to get around this, I've re-enable typekey authentication. You don't have to login via typekey to post comments - it's entirely voluntary. But you're welcome to if you want, and if you do, your posts will be almost guaranteed to get posted without being pushed into the mod queue. (If you write a post containing links to viagra-…
tlambert | January 18, 2007Online Opinion has published my post Andrew Bolt gets a perfect score on global warming as part of its Best Blog posts of 2006.
This comment from Jennifer Marohasy is priceless:
Interestingly this piece by Tim Lambert was published at OLO today as it is considered one of the '40 best blogs' written in 2006.
Given its content, I can't imagine the judges of the '40 best blogs' know that much about global warming?
But they should have known Andrew Bolt has a great blog at the Herald Sun ... and they could have probably found a much better written and more factually correct piece at his site.…
goodmath | January 12, 2007Here at ScienceBlogs, we've got our own back-channel forums for the bloggers to chat with each other. An idea that came up, which a bunch of us are interested in, is doing some posts about basic definitions and basic concepts.
There are many people who read various blogs around here who've had problems with definitions of some basic ideas. For example, there's the word vector - there are at least two very different uses of the word vector around here at SB: there's the form that people like me use (the mathematical vector), and there's the form that epidemiologists/biologists use.
For…