clock | August 7, 2008The London Science Blogging Conference now has a Facebook page for discussions. Perhaps they will also have a FriendFeed room, like the BioBarCamp folks did - it was fascinating following the meeting from afar there these two days.
In the meantime, we had a secret meeting about, well, providing some neat surprises for you for the ScienceOnline'09 meeting (a.k.a., the Third Science Blogging Conference), bigger and better than ever - the website and wiki will be up in about ten days or so, watch this space for updates....
clock | August 7, 2008It's not just McCain who does not understand the Internet, it's his operatives as well:
Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web -- and you could win valuable prizes!
That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of "AstroTurf" campaigning with the sort of customer-loyalty programs offered by airlines, hotel chains, restaurants and the occasional daily newspaper.
On McCain's Web site, visitors are invited to "Spread the Word" about the presumptive Republican nominee by sending campaign-supplied…
clock | August 7, 2008Jeff Jarvis - The myth of the creative class:
Internet curmudgeons argue that Google et al are bringing society to ruin precisely because they rob the creative class of its financial support and exclusivity: its pedestal. But internet triumphalists, like me, argue that the internet opens up creativity past one-size-fits-all mass measurements and priestly definitions and lets us not only find what we like but find people who like what we do. The internet kills the mass, once and for all. With it comes the death of mass economics and mass media, but I don't lament that, not for a moment.
The…
clock | August 7, 2008You can see it better, as well as add more hits (wiki-style) here. And internet memes are questionnaires that people tag each other to do. These are fads or hits, not memes.
clock | August 7, 2008Continuing with asking for your help in fixing my Blogroll:
Every couple of days or so, I will post here a list of blogs that start with a particular letter, and you add in the comments if you know of something that is missing from that list.
See so far:
Numbers and Symbols
A
Today brought to you by letter B. This is what is on the Blogroll right now. Check also the Housekeeeping posts for other B blogs I have discovered in the meantime. Check links. Tell me what to delete, what to add:
BPR3
Bonnie J. M. Swoger
Ben Off to Iraq
Biology Blogs
BIOLOGY & POLITICS
B92 Blogs
B and B
Back off,…
clock | August 7, 2008Olympic Games: Researchers Explore What Makes Better Athletes, The Physiology Of Performance, And More:
The world-record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as fast as the record pace for the 10,000-meter run just after World War II. Today, champion athletes are running more than four times farther at speeds of well under five minutes per mile.
Neurobiologists Discover Individuals Who 'Hear' Movement:
Individuals with synesthesia perceive the world in a different way from the rest of us. Because their senses…
clock | August 6, 2008The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.
- Earle Hitchner
clock | August 6, 2008Continuing with asking for your help in fixing my Blogroll:
Every couple of days or so, I will post here a list of blogs that start with a particular letter, and you add in the comments if you know of something that is missing from that list.
Today brought to you by letter A. This is what is on the Blogroll right now. Check Housekeeeping posts for other A blogs I have discovered in the meantime. Check links. Tell me what to delete, what to add:
The Alternative Scientist
Academic Productivity
The Apprenticing Lab Rat
A Man With A Ph.D.
A Wallflower Physicist's Perspective
Advances in the…
clock | August 6, 2008Duck-billed Dinosaurs Outgrew Predators To Survive:
With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least one advantage: It grew to adulthood much faster than its predators, giving it superiority in size.
Massive Numbers Of Critically Endangered Western Lowland Gorillas Discovered In Republic Of Congo:
The world's population of critically endangered western lowland gorillas recently received a huge boost when the Wildlife Conservation Society…
clock | August 6, 2008McCain campaign complained that media is not covering him before they complained that media is covering him. Another example of a debate between John McCain and John McCain? Well, when you have a bad product, it is best not to have it reviewed. There is a reason why crappy movies are not shown to critics before they are released in theaters. McCain can win if he never ever shows up on TV between now and November. That way, many will be duped into thinking he was still the charming maverick he was back in....when was it, 19th century?
Not that media is actually slamming McCain like they…
clock | August 6, 2008Not on US television (Channel 4 in the UK only):
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clock | August 6, 2008Since this article came out in The American Scientist (the only pop-sci magazine that IMHO has not gone downhill in quality over the past decade) in early 1999 (you can read the entire thing here (pdf)) I have read it many times, I used it in teaching, I discussed it in Journal Clubs, and it is a never-ending fascination for me. Now Andrew and Greg point out there is YouTube video about the fox domestication project:
Back in the 1950s, Dmitri Konstantinovich Belyaev started an experiment in which he selectively bred Silver Foxes, very carefully, ONLY for their tameness (and "tameness" was…
clock | August 6, 2008See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com
Of course, by the time off-shore drilling could produce anything (in about 10 years if we start drilling today), there will be no need for it if we have already moved a huge amount of our energy consumption to non-oil sources.
As Paris Hilton said: "....see you b*tches at the debates..."