Media:
ConvergeSouth 2008 is ready to roll: The Web site is online and registration is open: http://2008.convergesouth.com/ We're calling for presentations - see the schedule and apply to present. There's a brand-new Video Walking Tour on Thursday, October 16, with Robert...
Posted on April 7, 2008 10:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
All humans, at some point in their lives, go ahead and die. Ages and causes of death vary widely. Bloggers are humans. All bloggers, at some point in their lives, go ahead and die. Ages and causes of death vary...
Posted on April 6, 2008 1:17 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My favourite newspaper has been publishing for a year now. . Robert Dickson and Kirk Ross mark the anniversary. Newspaper is not dead....
Posted on March 25, 2008 12:12 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Should we have a third culture?: The present problems with science communication are not only a result of mediocre writing skills or the diminished view of popularization the some scientists take. The public, aptly described as "consumers," have not developed...
Posted on March 19, 2008 11:56 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Will one man's tryst mean a $200-billion heist will go unreported? Reading Habits of the Liberal Media (via Melissa). Getting the Politics of the Press Right: Walter Pincus Rips into Newsroom Neutrality High-level right-wing discourse Immigration irrationality What's Wrong With...
Posted on March 16, 2008 11:06 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
He was here last Tuesday for filming of a scientific documentary for PBS: He was doing important work on an upcoming PBS special "The Human Spark", a three-part documentary about what makes us human, due to air next year. Alda,...
Posted on March 13, 2008 11:28 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
David Neiwert: But I also noticed this line: "Unlike traditional, mainstream media, blogs often adopt a specific point of view. Critics complain they can contain unchecked facts, are poorly edited and use unreliable sources." And this distinguishes them from the...
Posted on March 13, 2008 9:29 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Glenn Greenwald: Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press (the 424 comments are also worth at least skimming through). Jay Rosen: An Attractively Against-the-Grain Enterprise... Rachel Sklar: WaPo Writer Proves Own Thesis With Inane Op-Ed (follow ALL...
Posted on March 9, 2008 3:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Regular readers must be familiar by now with the ZooSchool in Asheboro, NC. Today's news from the school - their students have put up the first issue of their online newspaper, the ZSX-Press. Go check it out! In related news,...
Posted on March 6, 2008 8:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The proposal for link journalism is not a new concept, though the phrase is good. This is something that bloggers have been doing for years and have been imploring the corporate media to adopt for years. On paper, you can...
Posted on March 2, 2008 5:54 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sue announces that the website will be up in two weeks, and the blog is already up and running. You can help with organization. In any case, mark you calendars: ConvergeSouth 2008 will be held on October 16-17, 2008 in...
Posted on March 2, 2008 4:51 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chez describes how and why CNN fired him for blogging and then piles on! Spread the word. The old media needs to learn to respect the people formerly known as audience....
Posted on February 22, 2008 11:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sue and Ed are starting to plan the fourth ConvergeSouth and are asking the community to help with the planning....
Posted on February 19, 2008 7:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Congratulations to Josh Marshall for winning the George Polk Award! (Hat-tip)...
Posted on February 19, 2008 5:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Ed Cone (also see SteveK and McDawg) I see that CNN did Teh Stupid - they fired their producer Chez Sapienza. Why? Because he is blogging! On his own blog as well as on HuffPo. He writes about the...
Posted on February 14, 2008 5:03 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've heard this one last year (02.16.2007) but heard it again today (it will probably re-air tomorrow - check your local NPR station) - the This American Life episode about Quiz Shows. It was composed of three stories: The first...
Posted on February 2, 2008 4:14 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Duke Medical Center News Office is seeking a Sr. Science News Writer to be responsible for planning, developing, implementing and analyzing strategic comprehensive and diversified media relations programs and tactics. Through direct support of Duke Medicine strategic objectives...
Posted on January 23, 2008 11:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On the heels of David Warlick's session on using online tools in the science classroom and the student blogging panel comes the announcement that SPARC has declared the winners of the first SPARKY Awards for student-generated videos on the theme...
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Posted on January 23, 2008 9:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obligatory Reading of the Day, by Glenn Greenwald: "Do they ever think about anything without reference to some high school cliche?"...
Posted on January 8, 2008 4:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Praise where praise is deserved - Dan Abrams handled this segment perfectly, foregoing the he-said-she-said false equivalence, and even remembering to ask for the origin of the supposedly scientific study trotted out by the utterly dishonest proponent of the abstinence-only...
Posted on December 7, 2007 10:09 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jeffrey Feldman nails it: Every journalist working in America should print out that passage in extra-large font and tape it next to the bathroom mirror. Better yet, they should put the passage on a chain and wear it around...
Posted on October 14, 2007 1:06 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Alma Swan and Lawrence Lessig remind us that Creative Commons is celebrating its 5th birthday this December. Alma writes: Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating its 5th birthday. Lawrence Lessig has written to all supporters describing its 'dramatic' growth during the...
Posted on October 12, 2007 5:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some good, thought-provoking reads about the Web, social networking, publishing and blogging
Posted on October 8, 2007 11:11 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jeffrey Pomerantz invited me to give a brownbag lunch presentation on Science 2.0 yesterday at noon at the School of Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was fun for me and I hope...
Posted on October 6, 2007 6:43 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is why you should attend ConvergeSouth. OK, Anton will lead a session, and so will I, but check out the entire program - it is just getting more and more amazing every year! And it is probably the most...
Posted on September 25, 2007 11:34 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And it is hard to find anyone better than Brian: I am now available for hire to consult on the creation, care, and feeding of online communities. Plus I can create audio and video for the web. To get an...
Posted on September 25, 2007 10:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBling Craig McClain is one of the people considered by a major cable channel to host a show about the deep sea. You can help him get this cool job by showing your support in the comments on this...
Posted on September 17, 2007 8:18 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When Klaus-Martin Schulte attacked Naomi Orestes and she responded, there was quite a lot of blosopheric response to it. If you look no further than scienceblogs.com, there were no less than eight direct responses (and some lively comments as well):...
Posted on September 6, 2007 11:28 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On Sunday, LATimes published a viciously uninformed piece about blogging by some Skube guy (who appears to be here in NC though I have never heard of him before). The blogosphere, as expected, responded with laughter and dismay. Today, LATimes...
Posted on August 23, 2007 1:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My Scibling Tara Smith together with Steven Novella, published an article in PLoS Medicine last week that all frequent readers of science blogs will find interesting: HIV Denial in the Internet Era: Because these denialist assertions are made in books...
Posted on August 21, 2007 5:14 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here are a few pertinent quotes, but read the entire articles as well as long comment threads. Ed Cone: Skube published an opinion piece about blogs that, with the help of his editors at the LA Times, failed to uphold...
Posted on August 21, 2007 3:26 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What Kevin says....
Posted on July 31, 2007 6:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Michael Hopkin interviewed Al Jean, the executive producer of The Simpsons show, about math and science, sometimes central, sometimes hidden, in the episodes of everyone's favourite show......
Posted on July 26, 2007 2:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Books: "Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge. It's 2025 - What happened to science, politics and journalism? Well, you know I'd be intrigued. After all, a person whose taste in science fiction I trust (my brother) told me to read this...
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Posted on July 2, 2007 10:52 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am having difficulty understanding what this is about, who is who, what are the institutional affiliations and potential biases, etc. Can someone explain it to me: Net Neutrality: Undifferentiated Networks Would Require Significant Extra Capacity: Using computer models, the...
Posted on July 1, 2007 7:33 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Apophenia, danah boyd's blog is one of the first blogs I ever read and have been reading more-or-less continuously over the past 3-4 years (since she took a class on framing with George Lakoff and blogged about it). She is...
Posted on June 26, 2007 8:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am looking in the closet to see if I can find my tie, because I am going to this in an hour - a very bloggable event: A Lunch and Panel Discussion TALKING TO THE PUBLIC: How Can Media...
Posted on June 22, 2007 10:22 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
First, a video of Jonathan Haidt - Morality: 2012 (Hat-tip to Kevin): The social and cultural psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Henry Finder about the five foundations of morality, and why liberals often fail to get their message across. From...
Posted on June 21, 2007 8:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thanks to Jeff over on Shakesville (or should it be IN Shakesville?): Election Central reports that Drudge (who the hell and why still reads that sleazeball of all people!?) tried to slander Edwards by insinuating that his daughter Emma-Claire supports...
Posted on June 21, 2007 8:10 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You may be aware of the ongoing discussion about the tense relationship between scientists and science journalists. Here is the quick rundown of posts so far: Question for the academic types--interview requests The Mad Biologist and Science Journalists Science Journalists...
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Posted on June 20, 2007 6:33 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Scott Gant is on NPR's Diane Rehm show right now, valiantly defending bloggers from grouchy journalists. They will have a podcast up later....
Posted on June 12, 2007 11:34 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It is high time a blogger wins this prize, don't you think? If you are in Europe or Israel, and you have a life-science blog, apply for this award: EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences Call for entries...
Posted on May 31, 2007 9:39 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Remember back in November, when everyone got excited about JoVe (the Journal of Visulized Experiments)? Well, it is not alone in its niche any more. There is now another site similar to that: Lab Action. Of course I homed in...
Posted on May 29, 2007 9:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The other day I was chatting with my brother (the smarter brother of Sherlock Holmes) on the phone, and he said something that may have some truth to it - I was predisposed, from early childhood, to understand and like...
Posted on May 14, 2007 10:46 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today's Obligatory Reading of the Day is this essay by Kagro X: Have you ever read, seen, or heard a mainstream media account of some event in which you've been personally involved? Or in which you have developed, under whatever...
Posted on May 13, 2007 2:11 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Writing actual science posts takes a lot of time, research, thinking and energy. I assembled a large pile of papers I want to comment on and I actually started writing posts about a couple of them already, but Real Life...
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Posted on May 5, 2007 4:48 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
NPR has started a year-long series on climate called Climate Connections. The other day, they broadcast the first in a series of their educational segments, starting at the very beginning: the carbon atom. You can read the intro here and...
Posted on May 3, 2007 1:04 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Excellent article by Jeff Jarvis: The obsolete interview (hat-tip: Anton). As I've been interviewed several times this year, I agree. The world is changing: media, just like science publishing (see below) and getting a job (see further below) will change.......
Posted on April 26, 2007 6:19 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Barry Saunders is a local columnist for Raleigh News & Observer who I never thought was very funny (there is a mysoginist streak in his writing) so I rarely read him these days. But the other day I could not...
Posted on April 24, 2007 10:06 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It appears that scientists are not the only ones who do not grok framing. Jeffrey Feldman's book got blasted by some ninkompoop in NY Times yesterday. Jeff responds: Indeed, when I read that passage I wondered if the reviewer had...
Posted on April 9, 2007 2:34 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...
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Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Energy Use Study Demonstrates Remarkable Power Of Social Norms: Most people want to be normal. So, when we are given information that underscores our deviancy, the natural impulse is to get ourselves as quickly as we can back toward the...
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Posted on April 6, 2007 2:04 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The best way to make it easy for the low-brow followers to kill the enemy is to dehumanize it. That is what right-wing talking-heads have been doing for a while. Of course, if someone actually gets killed, they did not...
Posted on March 31, 2007 2:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...yet even at the start of it, back in March 2003, The Onion understood the dynamics of war and the psychology of defenders of war better than almost half of Americans and all of GOP today. [Hat-tip, commenter Lindsey]...
Posted on March 26, 2007 8:27 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On the heels of my last week's post, it seems everyone is writing about journalism, blogging, and how to move back from infotainment to actual journalism, as in "information + education" which a populace needs if the democracy is to...
Posted on March 25, 2007 11:19 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When a newspaper publishes a column about religion (in their Religion section) that takes into account only the Christian point of view, someone is bound to object. When the newspaper rectifies the error by publishing an article by an atheist,...
Posted on March 24, 2007 4:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The first issue of Carrboro Citizen is now available both in hardcopy and online. [Background here] Update: Brian is gushing over it.......
Posted on March 23, 2007 2:01 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is kinda funny. Waveflux digs out a couple of truly ancient articles - What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers and What Bloggers Can Learn From Journalists by Steve Outing, which, though not as awful as some (especially the first...
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Posted on March 21, 2007 2:31 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I hope you see this on time to tune in. Hat-tip: The Beagle Project Blog...
Posted on March 18, 2007 7:02 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There used to be two big independent papers in the Triangle: Spectator and Independent. The former was full of information about local events, movies, restaurants. The latter had some of the best political and social writing anywhere. Then, several years...
Posted on March 18, 2007 2:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Abandoning Net Neutrality Discourages Improvements In Service: Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers might not be in the best interest of the millions of Americans, despite claims...
Posted on March 12, 2007 12:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Evolution works according to a very small set of simple rules. If a) there is variation in a trait in a population and b) that variation is heritable and c) one variant is better adapted to the current local environment,...
Posted on February 23, 2007 9:04 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
About two days ago, about 120 local bloggers (their e-mail addresses probably taken from the local - and now obsolete - Triangle Bloggers MeetUp.org page) got an e-Vite to this: You are cordially invited to attend to the NBC 17...
Posted on February 4, 2007 7:57 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some politicians fear blogs. They must have something to hide, dontcha think? Other politicians love blogs and run their own. Unsurprisingly, they are beloved by their constituencies....
Posted on February 2, 2007 2:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A tale of two candidate's video distribution strategies: These examples highlight an interesting problem for candidates: while YouTube offers tools to manage posting comments, you cannot control what content your page links to. In going to "where the people are,"...
Posted on February 1, 2007 8:27 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is Internet going to change the way politicians campaign and the way they are perceived? Check this video, the first in a series of "webisodes" filmed behind the scenes with John Edwards: Doesn't that completely change your perceptions? Update: Sorry,...
Posted on December 19, 2006 9:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And so are you! Blogs rule!...
Posted on December 16, 2006 11:06 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you missed the Hardball last night, you can watch it here. Here is Raleigh News & Observer: 'Hardball' not so hard for Edwards: Likely Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards passed the world leader pop quiz Tuesday night. He correctly...
Posted on December 13, 2006 10:23 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...but they do not....
Posted on December 12, 2006 3:59 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
