Blogging
clock | September 4, 2006Lance, Matt and Tom write on MSM misunderstaning of blogs, and on old posts that keep on giving. What are your old posts that keep getting links and comments months and years after they disappeared into the depths of archives? For me it is definitely this one.
clock | September 4, 2006Learn more about Seed's ScienceBloggers in the latest part of the periodic system series.
clock | September 1, 2006Zygote Games has started a regular Friday feature - the Friday Parasite. Waaaaaaay cool! Which reminds me that, after a week's break, I owe you some Friday Weird Sex Blogging...coming tonight....
clock | August 31, 2006It does not really apply to everyone, but mostly to A-list political/news bloggers:
No Day at the Beach
I am an obsesssive/compulsive blogger. But on those rare occasions that I get to go out of town for a few days, I decide to enjoy myself in a computer-free zone. Let the traffic drop. It's summer and the traffic is in the doldrums anyway. And here on SB, I can even schedule a few posts (or re-posts of old stuff) in advance to keep the blog running if I want to. Traffic will come back up once I'm back, but I also need some rest and restoration of sanity every now and then. I am not…
clock | August 30, 2006My SciBling Chris Mooney, as part of his book-signing tour, is finally coming my way. So, if you are from these parts and are interested in the Republican War On Science, make sure to check October 28th and/or 29th on your calendar.
clock | August 30, 2006If you are confused by the sheer number of ScienceBloggers and need to know who is who and what everyone writes about, you should check the periodic table of SciBlings. Then, check out more detailed descriptions of some of the blogs and keep checking in the following days for the descriptions of others. A graphic, looking just like a real periodic table may be in the making soon...
clock | August 29, 2006From quite early on in my blogging endeavor, I was interested in exploring science blogging, what it is, what it can do, and what it can become. So, check out some of my earliest thoughts on this here and here.
Then, over about a month (from April 17, 2006 to May 17, 2006) I wrote a gazillion posts on this topic, and many science bloggers chimed in in the comments or on their own blogs. The repost of all of them together is under the fold. Check the originals (and comments) here:
April 17, 2006: Publishing hypotheses and data on a blog - is it going to happen on science blogs?
April 20,…
clock | August 28, 2006If you write something related to Hurricane Katrina today (or have already done so recently), let Shakespeare's Sister know so she can include your link in the Big Anniversary linkfest.
clock | August 27, 2006The Tarheel Tavern #79 is up on Kivi Leroux Miller's blog on Freelance Writing.
clock | August 27, 2006Last year, there was so much blogging about Katrina, I thought that the best thing I could do was create a large linkfest of everyone else's posts. That is what I did - check it out here, a nice one-stop-shopping for the analysis and opinion at the time. If you need to refresh your memory that is the place to go. You can also find most of the iconic images collected in one place here.
But I did not entirely abstain from commenting myself, though I was trying to look for angles nobody else covered and news nobody else had - which was hard to find at that time. So, I blogged about how…
clock | August 26, 2006So, you must know by now, that last night I went to the Triangle Bloggers BBQ, hosted by Anton and his wonderful wife Erin. Needless to say, it was great fun, though I had perhaps a beer too many....(but the food....don't let me get started on food - it was great)
Who was there? Local activists Will and his wonderful family (thank you for driving to the party), Brian and Ruby (thank you for driving from the party), my SciBling Abel, another fellow science blogger Reed Cartwright, the link to blook-publishing Jackson Fox, fellow Edwards supporter Jim Buie, meetup regulars Steve Cory, Josh…
clock | August 26, 2006A year ago this Monday, Katrina hit the Gulf states. We all blogged like crazy.
Since Bush Administration is desparately trying to supress the memory of their debacle, King Cranky and Melissa suggest we do a blogswarm - everyone blogs about Katrina on Monday and Shakes will collect the posts in a huge linkfest.
Need a reminder and a collection of facts? Check this Katrina timeline (via Arse Poetica)
clock | August 26, 2006I finally got to meet Reed Cartwright in person last night. Now that he is in Raleigh, and Panda's Thumb resides in my old building on campus, I hope I'll see him more often.
Speaking of Panda's Thumb, it is currently, as in "this week", demonstrating the power of the scienceblogging community, dissecting Jonathan Wells' new pamphlet-in-book-form "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design" literally chapter by chapter.
The introduction to the series was written by Reed. Burt Humburg tackles the first chapter. PZ Myers dissected the Chapter 3, first with a draft on…
clock | August 26, 2006Wolverine Tom posted some of his pictures from Badlands National Park in South Dakota he visited last summer.
clock | August 25, 2006So, did you like Books Around The Clock?
Tonight, I know where I'll be, so Friday Weird Sex Blogging may happen tomorrow or at the very best very late at night.
Next week, back to normal programming, only one repost per day (chronobiology on Mondays, miscellaneous on Tuesdays, science on Wednesdays, education on Thursdays and politics on Fridays), perhaps some cat pictures taken by my daughter, and whatever else strikes my fancy on any given day.
clock | August 24, 2006John McKay, one of my most favouritest bloggers, is hitting the Big Five-Oh today. So, go say Hello and help his Sitemeter get the 75,000th hit today.
clock | August 24, 2006Hsien Hsien Lei is continuing her series of interviews of science bloggers, and today is my turn. As you have learned to expect by now, my answers are long and wordy. But the questions are interesting, so I hope you like the answers as well. Check it out here.