Dear readers, Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily has suggested that we have a universally available icon to indicate that the blogger is blogging about peer reviewed research, and he has created a discussion blog at BPR3. Please go make suggestions and add to the discussion. Muggins here will implement it when the consensus has been reached.
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If so, you'll be interested in today's announcement from BPR3 (Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting):
We're pleased to announce that BPR3's Blogging on Peer Reviewed Research icons are now ready to go! Anyone can use these icons to show when they're making a serious post about peer-…
Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily introduced today a new set of icons that will help readers identify blogging on peer-reviewed research. You can find the full announcement below the fold, including info on where to find the icons, how to use them, and how to find blog posts tagged with the icons…
If you haven't checked out the BPR3 initative (Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting), now's your chance to see everything that's going on with BPR3 in one place: The new web site has just gone live.
Set your bookmarks to researchblogging.org for the latest news on our efforts to identify…
You may have noticed the small icon on the right displayed on yesterday's post about tracking moving objects and on Wednesday's post about the Brainbow genetic labelling system.
The icon denotes a post that includes a discussion on peer-reviewed research, and is intended to distinguish such posts…
...and watch this icon show up all over the ID sites. Shouldn't citations in the blog be better than an icon which anyone can copy and paste into their own blog? Seems to me this is just begging to be abused.
People will have to make their own assessments of the worth of the blog. We can't stop them using it if we allow everyone else to.
Some of us (myself included) are brainstorming ways to police proper use of the icon as well. Go to BPR3.org and throw in our $0.02. I suggested registration and visibility of credentials...