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aardvarchaeology | December 21, 2008The fifty-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at The Greenbelt. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology!
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to me. The next open hosting slot is on 28 January, a bit more than a month from now. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. No need to be an anthro pro.
clock | December 20, 2008At the Western RCAC Symposium last week:
Rodd Lucier: Fertilizing the Grass Roots:
My personal suspicions are that most attendees will fail to make effective use of any of the many tools introduced today. Even with everyone recognizing that we have a long way to go: A significant knowing-doing gap will remain!
David Warlick: So Now What Do We Do?:
Then Rodd listed some comments that he overheard during the conference, that support his concern. I'm listing them here and will try to make some suggestions that may be useful. My suggestions are indented just a bit to better distinguish them…
clock | December 20, 2008It is rare that I pick the winners in any contest, but this time I picked three! Congratulations to all the winners of the 2008 EduBlog Awards, but especially to my friend David Warlick who led the session on 'blogs in science education' at the last year's Science Blogging Conference, and to Miss Baker's students who will lead a ScienceOnline09 session on Science online - middle/high school perspective (or: 'how the Facebook generation does it'?).
clock | December 20, 2008Happy Anniversary, PLoS ONE!
Today is PLoS ONE's second anniversary and we're celebrating by announcing that the winner of the second PLoS synchroblogging competition is SciCurious of the Neurotopia 2.0 blog.
"This fluent post captures the essence of the research and accurately communicates it in a style that resonates with both the scientific and lay community" - Liz Allen, PLoS.
Here is the winning entry, cross posted in its entirety:
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Einstein was smart, but Could He Play the Violin?
I already wrote one entry for PLoS ONE's second birthday, but I'm feeling sparky…
clock | December 19, 2008Pam Spaulding and Wayne Sutton discuss blogs, election, Rick Warren and more:
Location: Carrboro Creative Coworking space. Who needs Silicon Valley when there are people and facilities like this right here in North Carolina?
clock | December 19, 2008The deadline for the PLoS ONE Second Birthday Synchroblogging Competition is now officially over. Here are all the posts written for the competition - 18 posts, written by 17 people, covering 22 PLoS ONE articles. Liz, Dave, Jason and I will be reading them today and will announce the winner as soon as we can:
Barn Owl of Guadalupe Storm-Petrel: DNA Repair During Spermatogenesis: Gimme a Break! about the article: Deletion of Genes Implicated in Protecting the Integrity of Male Germ Cells Has Differential Effects on the Incidence of DNA Breaks and Germ Cell Loss
Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket…
clock | December 18, 2008The entries for the PLoS ONE Second Birthday Synchroblogging Competition have been coming in all day. Here are the posts I found so far. If you have posted and your post is not on this list, let me know by e-mail. I will keep updating this post and moving it to the top until the competition closes at dawn tomorrow:
Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science: Predatory slime mould freezes prey in large groups about the article: Exploitation of Other Social Amoebae by Dictyostelium caveatum
Scicurious of Neurotopia (version 2.0): Why Did the Dolphin Carry a Sponge? about the article: Why Do…
clock | December 17, 2008That's interesting:
Croatia currently has over 400,000 users on Facebook and that is more than a 15 percent growth over last month according to our own internal statistics. Facebook tends to be one of the first locations that younger generations turn to for expressing their political frustrations. There is no doubt that Facebook will continue to be a center for political expression.
Svetlana Gladkova suggests that the primary reason he was arrested was not simply that he created the Facebook group but that, "he is actually the president of one of the local branches of the youth of SDP (social…
clock | December 17, 2008This guy is an impostor! He is (or was) a soccer player, but if you google his name, most of the first 100 search hits are not about him at all.... (smile).
clock | December 16, 2008Despite online debates - which one is better: Twitter or FriendFeed, sometimes serious, sometimes tongue-in-cheek - the fact is that these are two different animals altogether. Asking one to make a choice between the two is like asking one to make a choice between e-mail and YouTube - those are two different services that do different things. Thus, they are to be used differently.
Twitter is a communications tool (or a 'human application'). You can broadcast (one-to-many), you can eavesdrop (many-to-one) or you can converse (one-to-one, either in public or through Direct Messages). But most…
clock | December 16, 2008Are you writing your posts yet? Hurry up, the PLoS ONE Second Birthday Synchroblogging Competition is in two days!
There are also just a couple of days left to vote in the 2008 Edublog Awards, so if you have not done it yet, do it now.
And be patient with us - there are many, many good entries to choose from for The Open Laboratory 2008. The judging process is going on smoothly and the winners will be announced pretty soon.
clock | December 15, 2008Today's Rocketboom mentions the NCSU symposium on obese zoo animals and links to me:
Cool!
clock | December 15, 2008This guy compiled a list of Top Three Twitter Accounts from a number of different countries. Of course, it is impossible to make such a list perfectly - many people never put their country when registering, others have moved, others have multiple accounts, etc., but nonetheless, it is a nice list of people you may want to check out and follow if you want to broaden your international horizons.
A number of countries are missing, though. There is no Serbia, for instance. But you can find a full deck of cards of Twitter users just from Belgrade, Serbia here.
clock | December 15, 2008Jeff Cohen was one of the people interviewed for this article in Raleigh News & Observer today about the Future of the Internet:
In 2020, powerful mobile phones will rule, privacy will erode further and the line between work and home life will be faint, if not obliterated.
That's what 578 technology gurus see in their crystal balls, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The survey, "Future of the Internet III," conducted by Pew and Elon University, envisions amazing advances in mobile devices, virtual reality, voice and touch technology -- possibly…
skookumchick | December 15, 2008Both ScienceWoman and I are attending ScienceOnline09 in January; ScienceWoman has already gotten your feedback about her session she's co-chairing with KH, so it is high time for me to ask your thoughts about the session I'm co-chairing with Abel Pharmboy and Zuska.
Our session is titled "Gender in science" but we're really interested in how blogging and online interactions can provide allies with a way to support women bloggers, bloggers who are people of colour, LGBT bloggers, and other underrepresented bloggers in STEM. So, as examples, in no particular order (but numbered in case you…
clock | December 12, 2008Remember this?
Now Simon Ovens interviewed several key players in this game - Pulitzers Open to Online-Only Entrants -- But Who Qualifies? It's longish, but worth your attention:
He did, however, confirm that a blog could hypothetically qualify. "If one or two people call their website a text-based newspaper, would it be eligible?" he said. "Blogs tend to fall into three categories. There are news reporting blogs, there are commentary blogs, and there's a hybrid version of the two. If they're text-based and meet our criteria, then they probably could compete. But it would be up to them to…
sciencewoman | December 12, 2008While many of you are thinking about issues related to blogging and interviewing, let's take this opportunity to have a more constructive conversation on benefits and pitfalls of blogging while on the job market. Warning: I want the discussion in this thread to be focused on a wide range of experiences, questions, and generalities, and if I see it disintegrating into more rehashing of the specific case a few posts below, I'm going to exercise my moderation super-powers.
Let's say you've got a blog. Maybe its focused on your science, maybe it's more a journal of your life as a scienitst (or…
clock | December 12, 2008If you go to the Science page of New York Times, starting today, you will see on the right side, just below the "Most popular" box a brand new widget - "Selected Posts From Sb Scienceblogs" that looks like this:
Soon, we'll reciprocate the link by linking to NYTimes science content as well. A nice way for old media and new media to integrate with each other, send readers to each other and educate the general audience about the difference in format, form, style, voice and quality between the old and new media. Everybody wins.