Scientific American July Issue.
In other news, Nature has started Scintilla, a service that keeps you up to date on papers, news and science weblogs. You can also rate and recommend things. You'll have to register to do anything and you can't have a RSS feed (What!! My browser doesn't run on free fuel, you know; I can't take it everywhere. Give me RSS feeds or lose me).
Seed did a great job in spotting the trend early.
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For the past week, we've been conducting a little experiment with Cognitive Daily.
Last week, the number of subscribers to this blog's RSS feed passed the 2,000 mark, after teetering just below that number for a couple of months.
Back in January, Steve McIntyre used some erroneous data of satellite-measured temperatures from RSS to argue that Hansen's 1988 temperature projections were too high.
What the heck is RSS? Little did I know that I was reading news and blogs the Old Slow Way rather than the New Fast Way. Jeez. I'm almost as embarrassed as when it was pointed out that I still use Friendster, which is, like *so* 2003.
I signed up for a Scintilla account to check it out, but I doubt I'll be visiting very often. My first impression is that the interface is clunky and I don't really see the advantage to reading blogs there when I've already subscribed to the RSS feeds. I suppose once more people sign up there is the potential for social networking, but I don't think it's reached critical mass yet.
Thanks for the information.
This is a test post.