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clock | October 5, 2006Brian Russell is organizing the 2007 Podcastercon. Let me show you how much fun the last year's Podacstercon was by reposting this January 16, 2006 post (also cross-posted on Science And Politics) about the exciting education session led by David Warlick of 2 Cents Worth blog:
Sorry for three days of absence from this blog. I needed some time to recuperate after the Podacstercon which I attended last Saturday. It was a marvelous experience. For more information check out the Podcastercon blog, the wiki, a nice article in News and Observer, the blog reports via Technorati tags, Technorati…
clock | October 5, 2006
Jean-Claude Bradley is the pioneer in the use of blogs in science in the way that too many of us are still too scared to do - posting on a daily basis the ideas, methods and data from the lab. He and his collaborators are using the blogs Useful Chemistry, Useful Chem Experiments 1 and Usefulchem-Molecules, as well as the UsefulChem Project wiki to exchange information, brainstorm and inform the public of their work. These sites serve as laboratory notebooks open for everyone to see.
So, I am delighted to tell you that Jean-Claude will be coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging…
clock | October 4, 2006From John Dupuis via ACRLog, news of Academic Blog Portal wiki collecting (in a Chinese Classification of Animals kind of way) all the academic blogging goodness. It is currently heavy on humanities side, but you can add science blogs there if you want.
I wonder if something like this should be linked from somewhere there...
clock | October 4, 2006...registered for ConvergeSouth by last name initial or by first name initial? If you have a website or blog, you should be registered both ways.
clock | October 3, 2006Some musings from February 13, 2005...
At the Triangle Blogger Conference yesterday, somebody mentioned Vernon Vinge's Fire Upon The Deep, as an example of a sci-fi novel describing future consequences of Usenet (at the time) or blog communities. Someone else suggested another book, Bloom. Another blogger (sorry, can't find it again right now, so many people blogged their impressions of the conference afterwards) thought of Terry Pratchett's The Truth as a parable of the way journalism works. I have not yet read "Fire Upon The Deep" (surprisingly, as I own a copy and generally like Vinge a…
clock | October 3, 2006
Just to make sure everyone knows where it is going to be, and while still early in the game, we decided to change the name of the conference into 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. So, go to the main page to download new logos and flyers. The t-shirt is also in the making...
clock | October 2, 2006
A science (and medicine) blogging conference, the first of its kind, is now officially announced for January 20th 2007. What can you do?
1. First, go to the conference wiki and look around to see what it is all about.
2. Help to spread the word by blogging about it. If you do, you can use these cool logos as well as this Technorati tag.
3. Download this flyer (pdf), print a couple of copies and post them outside your office/lab door or down the hall on a bulletin board, or wherever else you think it is appropriate.
4. Use the word of mouth or e-mail to tell your friends about it. Tell…
clock | September 30, 2006
Wow, it's been a while since I last hosted the Tar Heel Tavern. This will be the first time since Erin took over the reins of this carnival and the first time since I moved my blog here to Seed's ScienceBlogs (please look around and check out my SciBlings while you are here). In the meantime, Erin has performed a nice makeover of the carnival's homepage and archives so go take a look.
I am happy to see a number of great entries this week. Still, I added a couple of "Editor's Choices" at the end. Let's start...
For the geeks out there, Melissa of Mel's Kitchen has discovered a cookbook…
clock | September 28, 2006If you decide to post about the 2007 Triangle Science Blogging Conference please tag your posts with this Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | September 28, 2006...are you a citizen journalist or just a blogger?
Depending on one's definition of "journalist", I guess.
Is a professional (i.e., someone paid by a news organization) who publishes in newspapers a journalist no matter what s/he is writing, i.e., publishing just anything: ads, horoscopes, comics, crosswords, Ask Sadie, op-eds, etc? If so, bloggers are journalists.
If the word is restricted to a person who uncovers new information and writes articles for the news pages only, than most of us (but not all) are NOT journalists.
clock | September 28, 2006If so, do you care, and if you do, what can you do to stop them?
Open Switch, Billy the Blogging Poet and Robert Scoble and their commenters chime in on Internet copyright, Creative Commons and splogs.
clock | September 26, 2006You can help spread the word about the 2007 Triangle Science Blogging Conference by using this logo:
or this logo:
or by downloading and printing out this flyer and posting it on a bulletin board or outside your office.
Technorati Tag: sciencebloggingconference
clock | September 26, 2006So, now that you have a better idea how great it was last year, are you coming to ConvergeSouth this year? On October 14th (yup, one day instead of two). Last year was about journalism and blogging. This year, the theme is "beyond blogging", both technologically (podcasting, vlogging) and socially (building communities, etc.). I am especially interested in the Facebook session (you may have heard already that Facebook opened its doors to non-"edu" e-mail addresses today) and hope that there will be a lot of young users of Facebook there telling us how they think about it instead of us old…
clock | September 26, 2006What's a bloggercon without a discussion of traffic and how to raise it...
Continuing the ongoing coverage of ConvergeSouth....
Saturday afternoon - the last session of the day.
Michael Cobb Bowen, aka Cobb, is one cool dude. He runs a conservative blog AND a progressive blog. He is a smart African-American conservative blogger (no knee-jerk Regressive a la Hindrocket or Vox Day - but a serious and respectable thinker) whom I had the honor of meeting (and sharing one interesting car ride with) last week.
Now, I can make a lame excuse about being tired at the end of the day and worn-out by…
clock | September 26, 2006I see this session as the seed for this year's theme of ConvergeSouth.
Continuing the ConvergeSouth coverage...
Saturday early afternoon:
Exposing a little organizational glitch - Roch Smith's session moved to a different room (Hoder was absent), yet there was no sign posted at the old venue, nor an announcement. So, by the time I and a few others figured it all out, we came in late and missed the opening spiel. I hope I did not miss too much.
At the beginning, Roch asked people why they blog. Nobody said therapy, although I feel it may be the real reason why I blog and why, I suspect, many…
clock | September 26, 2006This sessions tried, once again, to answer the old question "Where are the female political bloggers?"
Continuing the ConvergeSouth coverage....
Friday late morning:
This was probably the most exciting session of all. Tiffany of Blackfeminist blog was going to discuss the problem of an emerging hierarchy within the blogosphere.
All the so-called "A-listers" are middle-class, middle-age, white, straight, and usually Christian, men. Every three months or so, one of them looks around and posts a question "Where are all the female political bloggers?". What inevitably ensues is a big fight in…
clock | September 26, 2006When you go to bloggercons, you bump into famous bloggers...
Continuing ConvergeSouth coverage....
After getting lost on campus, Atrios made his entrance on Saturday morning. It was a great continuation of the previous day's session on journalistic ethics (see my previous ConvergeSouth post).
The discussion centered on the perils of he-said-she-said journalism, even in cases in which there is only one side backed by empirical facts, the other side being a wrong-headed opinion manufactured for the express reason of having another side - the best example being evolution vs. intelligent design…
clock | September 26, 2006This was one of the best sessions from last year. As always, you can click on the spider-clock icon to check the comments on the original post....
Coverage continues...
Friday afternoon:
Jay Rosen and Lex Alexander session was amazing (and a number of bloggers have already commented on it). Daniel's doodle of the two guys is right on the money:
Compare it to the photo:
The session was actually quite tense and contentious, struggling over the ageless question of who has, or deserves, more trust: professional journalists or bloggers...until someone really smart suggested to stop thinking "Who…
clock | September 26, 2006This post has actually been linked and cited quite a bit by people starting new blog carnivals, as it explains what those things are...
ConvergeSouth is on Friday and Saturday. I am part of the session on "community building" and I am invited to explain the concept of the blog carnival. It is going to be fluid and conversational, i.e., I will not be standing up and lecturing for 20 minutes, but I need to have my thoughts clear and talking points ready. This post is a mental preparation for me. Writing this post may help me make my points more concise than the usual marathon posts I write on…