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A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem
Posted by Coturnix on July 19, 2010 It is with great regret that I am writing this. Scienceblogs.com has been a big part of my life for four years now and it is hard to say good bye. Everything that follows is my own personal thinking and may not apply to other people, including other bloggers on this platform. The new contact…
Another interesting graph….
Posted by Coturnix on July 11, 2010 Click on image to check stats, play around…
The PepsiGate linkfest
Posted by Coturnix on July 10, 2010 I will not be saying anything about PepsiCo thing myself yet. I do have opinions (and decisions that come from them), but I am not revealing anything until I am ready (and it may end up being one of those horribly long posts, who knows). But in the meantime I can put together this linkfest,…
Future: News From The Year 2137 Trailer (video)
Posted by Coturnix on July 6, 2010 Future: News From The Year 2137 Trailer For explanation, read this.
On media articles linking to scientific papers (and other sources)
Posted by Coturnix on June 30, 2010 There are fascinating threads of comments developing on these two posts: Science journalism pet peeve and Do arrogant, condescending, and dismissive attitudes contribute to the journalism crisis? If you have bookmarked the quick guide to the maxims of new media you will easily find the origin of the phrase “Do what you do best and…
The continuum of expertise
Posted by Coturnix on June 21, 2010 Over the weekend I stumbled upon two phrases, new to me, which I instantly loved – “monitorial citizenship” and “temporary experts”. And I thought they both say something important about the role of expertise in journalism as a whole and in science journalism in particular. Temporary Experts If you are a very regular and careful…
Why can’t they do this on Meet The Press? (video)
Posted by Coturnix on June 20, 2010 Republican candidate for Arizona State Superintendent of Public Instruction and current State Senator John Huppenthal gets schooled by Tempe’s Corona del Sol High School student journalist Keith Wagner during an interview about the state legislature’s vote to cut career and technical education funding by 99.9%. :
No, blogs are not dead, they are on summer vacation
Posted by Coturnix on June 20, 2010 It is always funny to hear how “blogs are dying”, being abandoned in droves as bloggers are all moving to Twitter. It’s funny how that works – you see fewer posts on a blog, or a couple of bloggers going on a summer hiatus, and the sky is falling! In response to the latest such…
Quick & dirty: misleading sex surveys in women’s mags (video)
Posted by Coturnix on June 19, 2010 Christine Ottery, on her awesome new blog Women’s Mag Science (check older posts) did a very interesting interview with Dr. Petra Boynton about the way sex surveys in women’s magazines are done, and how misleading they often are. Watch the video: The quick and dirty world of women’s magazines from Christine Ottery on Vimeo.