Blogging
clock | September 1, 2008I asked if anyone knows any art history blogs? I am aware of many history blogs, and some art blogs, but no art history blogs.
Neil responded with the discovery of this post - why have there been no great art history bloggers?
And then found two: Your Daily Art and The Art History Blog.
Anyone know any others?
aardvarchaeology | September 1, 2008
Just back home from a lovely evening in the company of friends. Good food, good drink and good conversation with (left to right) Tor, Felicia, Kai, Ãsa, Pat, Anders and Lars & Thinker who left before I thought of whipping out my phone cam. Many thanks, guys!
clock | September 1, 2008Well, not really, but someone is running a satirical blog named Welcome To The PalinDrome: Sarah Palin's Blog.
Humor and satire are important part of every campaign. While I may not find conservative humor funny (it is too often mean and targets the weak and defenseless), I understand that conservatives find it funny and it helps them rally their own troops. So do we on our side and there are some very funny bloggers out there. This spoof blog is part of that tradition.
What is the funniest is checking out the comments and seeing that some commenters, both Lefty and Righty, did not see…
laelaps | September 1, 2008The next edition of The Boneyard is due to be unveiled tomorrow at When Pigs Fly Returns, so gather up your best paleo posts from the last month and get them to me or Zach soon!
clock | August 30, 2008Connie Bensen has assembled all the relevant links and tags so you can follow Gustav and, if you are in the area, organize the response.
clock | August 30, 2008Wayne interviewed three local kids about the way they use social networks and blogs:
School has just started and we had a chance to sit down with three bright kids, Toby, Dominique, and Samantha to talk about how they use social networks such as MySpace and Facebook. But not only social networks, we asked them about blogging and how they were introduced to twitter. Also see what the future paintball king, dancer and artist had to say about their parents being friends with them on social networks and their goals in life.
I am my son's Top Friend on Facebook, and we follow each other there…
clock | August 29, 2008The cat is out of the bag! The version2.0 of ResearchBlogging.org is ready to go and you can test it out:
After a week of late nights and hard coding, our development team has released the beta version of the site to our entire userbase! You can visit the new site here:
http://72.32.57.144/index.php/
We are planning on launching the site at the researchblogging.org address over the weekend, but you can get a head start now setting up your account, customizing it the way you like, and trying out all our new features. (note: All passwords have been reset, so you'll need to use the "forgot…
clock | August 29, 2008The London Science Blogging Conference is about to begin. Check out the Conference Programme the who's who list of attendees and the discussion in the Science Blogging 2008: London NN forums, a FriendFeed room and a Facebook page.
We will be wathing closely, getting ideas, learning stuff, and making our own program for the ScienceOnline'09 - soon to be revealed to the world.
clock | August 29, 2008While everyone else has been focused on politics this week, several science bloggers posted some amazing posts about, gasp, science! Check these out - amazing weekend reading (and potential anthology entries!):
Neurophilosophy: Wilder Penfield, Neural Cartographer:
The patient lies on the operating table, with the right side of his body raised slightly. The anaesthetist sterilizes his scalp and injects it with Nupercaine to produce analgesia - the patient will remain fully conscious throughout the procedure. Behind the surgical drapes, three large incisions are made in his scalp. A large…
clock | August 29, 2008A nice article about Durham bloggers today (it will be on paper later, online for now). Bloggers featured or linked include, among others, my friends Anton Zuiker, Pam Spaulding, Sheril Kirshenbaum and Lenore Ramm.
clock | August 28, 2008Yes, you have heard right. There will be parties around the world, wherever SciBlings are, celebrating the one millionth comment on scienceblogs.com, expected to happen some time mid-September.
You can meet Sciblings and fellow-readers at parties in Michigan, Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, London and other places - watch all the blogs for announcements of the details.
As the North Carolina contingent here is the largest of them all at scienceblogs (7-8 SciBlings, depends on the exact date of the event and how one does the counting), there will be a big event…
clock | August 27, 2008Interesting post (based on one of my favourite books which may warrant a re-reading after many years - Adler's "How to Read a Book" but adapted to online reading) How to Read by Brian Clark:
We know that people don't read well online. They ruthlessly scan for interesting chunks of information rather than digesting the whole, and they want to be entertained in the process. This is the reality that online publishers deal with, so we disguise our nuggets of wisdom with friendly formatting and clever analogies.
But that doesn't mean you should read that way.
If you've been publishing online for…
aardvarchaeology | August 27, 2008The forty-eighth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Tangled Up In Blue Guy. Archaeology and anthropology, and all about various aspects of Hrodgaud of Friuli!
Hrodgaud or Rodgand was Duke of Friuli from 774 to 776. Probably he was already duke under Desiderius, even if some Frankish sources, such as the Einhardis annales, say that Charlemagne put him in power after the Siege of Pavia.
Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Brutha Carl at A Hot Cup Of Joe, not to the old submissions address. The next open hosting slot is on 22 October. All bloggers with an interest in the…
laelaps | August 27, 2008Today Sb is all shook up. The guys from DSN just announced that they'll be setting sail for the Discovery Channel blog network, but I am happy to announce that one of my most favorite bloggers (and commentors), Blake Stacey, is now in the Sb fold. Go check out his new digs and say "Hello!"
clock | August 27, 2008I knew this for quite a long time and it was hard to keep my lips sealed about this as the news were so exciting. But today, it's official. So, go say Hello to Blake Stacey at Science After Sunclipse, the newest acquisition by The Borg!
clock | August 27, 2008In about a week, Deep Sea News will move to Discoverry blogs:
Congratulations to Craig, Peter and Kevin! We'll miss you here, but we will still read you at your new digs.
laelaps | August 27, 2008The guys over at Deep Sea News have been mercilessly teasing their readers for quite a while now, promising that they're got some absolutely astounding news to report sometime today. Amongst all the teasers they provided one hint; footage of a space shuttle lifting off.
What could the clue mean? I think that the DSN guys have arranged for the first space flight piloted entirely by super-intelligent squid. You knew it would have to happen eventually. I could be wrong, though, so I guess we will all just have to wait until the announcement is made.
Update: As promised, all has been revealed...
neurophilosophy | August 26, 2008In an effort to get you, my readers, to actively participate in this blog, and also because some of you have been so generous in the past, I've decided to offer prizes to those of you who leave comments.
I will send a recently published science book to the reader who posts the most interesting, insightful or amusing comment. I'd like to do this regularly, so if it proves to be successful, I'll do it on a monthly basis.
I still haven't decided exactly how this will work. I could choose the comment myself - and, as it's my blog, my decision would be final - or I might select a handful of…
clock | August 26, 2008Judge Rules That Content Owners Must Consider Fair Use Before Sending Takedowns:
A judge's ruling today is a major victory for free speech and fair use on the Internet, and will help protect everyone who creates content for the Web. In Lenz v. Universal (aka the "dancing baby" case), Judge Jeremy Fogel held that content owners must consider fair use before sending takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA").