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aardvarchaeology | October 7, 2007Wednesday 10 October will see the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival appear in all its archaeo/anthro glory at Remote Central. If you have read or blogged anything good on those themes lately, then make sure to submit it to Tim ASAP. (You are encouraged to submit stuff you've found on other people's blogs.)
There's an open hosting slot on 5 December and further ones closer to Christmas. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me.
clock | October 6, 2007Jeffrey Pomerantz invited me to give a brownbag lunch presentation on Science 2.0 yesterday at noon at the School of Information and Library Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was fun for me and I hope it was fun for the others in the room, about 20 or so of faculty and students in the School.
This was my first attempt at putting together such a presentation, something I will be called on to do several times over the next couple of months and more. I was happy I made it within one hour, excellent questions included, though I probably talked too long about blogs and…
aardvarchaeology | October 4, 2007I'm thinking maybe it isn't worth the effort to keep the Good Books and Good Albums lists going in the left-hand column. Better to put that effort into writing more blog entries about books and albums? Dear Reader, if you're a regular and would miss the lists, please say so in a comment.
clock | October 3, 2007I regularly check Anton Zuiker's Sugarcubes, displayed in his sidebar. There, I recently discovered that Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani put together a booklet that explains how to liveblog a conference - Tips for conference bloggers (choose between a large PDF and a small PDF). Pretty good information overall.
When I went to the first BloggerCon in Chapel Hill, I was still a newbie: I sat next to and chatted with Dave Winer without knowing who he was. I do not remember now, but I believe I wrote a brief post about the BloggerCon afterwards.
The following year, at Podcastercon, I…
neurophilosophy | October 2, 2007A list for the top 100 medical blogs of September is at the Dutch site Medblog.nl. The ranks are determined with an algorithm that uses 8 paramenters, including number of posts and comments, Google pagerank, Technorati rank and number of incoming links.
sciencewoman | October 2, 2007Read all sorts of wonderful posts by/for women in science at this month's edition of Scientiae. This edition of the carnival was ably hosted by Wayfarer Scientista who selected the theme "mentoring" to get us all going. Thanks, Wayfarer for doing such a great job putting together the carnival.
Next month, the full will be hosted by Yami at Green Gabbro.
sciencewoman | October 2, 2007Just a little announcement to let everyone know that the RSS feed now seems to be working for the new website. To subscribe click the RSS button on the upper right or enter: http://www.scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/index.xml into your feed reader.
Hopefully within the next few days, my posts will start showing up on the ScienceBlogs main page as well.
clock | October 1, 2007Back in March or early April, I was interviewed for an article on Science Blogging for BlueSci, the Cambridge University's popular science magazine, produced by students there. The issue is now out and the article by Mica Tatalovic based on that interview is very good. You should read the entire issue, of course (I liked the review of the current knowledge of kisspeptin, for instance), but if you want to read the Science Blogging article, you will have to scroll down to pages 30 and 31 of the PDF. Enjoy the cartoons drawn for the article as well - we may have to use this one for…
clock | October 1, 2007You did it! Earlier today, somebody on Scienceblogs.com posted the 500,000th comment. It will take a few days for our Seed Overlords to check the counter, contact the winners and make the big announcement. In the meantime, as PZ says, You are encouraged to go on commenting to run the tally up to a million.
And, you can enjoy a randomly rotating selection of cool comments on the Scienceblogs.com front page. I know, I know, nobody ever asked me to fertilize their eggs (not that Mrs.Coturnix would approve), but one of the rotating comments is the historical one here:
PLoS is quite proud of…
purepedantry | October 1, 2007An anonymous medical blogger in Texas is being sued by a hospital for defamation and for releasing patient information:
An unlikely Internet frontier is Paris, Texas, population 26,490, where a defamation lawsuit filed by the local hospital against a critical anonymous blogger is testing the bounds of Internet privacy, First Amendment freedom of speech and whistle-blower rights.
A state district judge has told lawyers for the hospital and the blogger that he plans within a week to order a Dallas Internet service provider to release the blogger's name. The blogger's lawyer, James Rodgers of…
clock | October 1, 2007Yes, I'll be there this Friday. Come by and say Hello if you are in the building or close at lunchtime.
retrospectacle | September 27, 2007Blogs are becoming powerful tools of first-hand journalism, most recently evidenced by the conflict going on in Myanmar. A London blogger named Ko Htike has been blogging the violence against monks occurring in his homeland, but from his current locale in England. Htike wakes up in the middle of the night to review all the 'digitally smuggled' pictures and video that is sent to him from people in the thick of it in Myanmar. This is particularly important since very few Western journalists are allowed in Myanmar, limiting the amount of unbiased information released to the rest of the world.…
neurophilosophy | September 27, 2007A handful of good blogs that I've found recently:
Neural Dump
Logical Science
Dave's Daily Dose of Science
Scientific Misconduct Blog
clock | September 26, 2007
Now that the registration for the Science Blogging Conference is open, it is time to remind you that the new edition of the Science Blogging Anthology, "Open Laboratory 2007", is in the works and is accepting your suggestions.
Although the entire process, from the initial idea all the way to having a real book printed and up for sale, took only about a month, the Open Laboratory 2006 was a great success. This year, we have much more time so we hope we will do an even better job of it.
More than 100 entries have come in so far (see under the fold) and we are looking for more. I have read…
clock | September 26, 2007This was Anton's idea, at the dinner the other night, but I will get it started here anyway.
An interesting animal I had
I never owned an unusual species of animal. As a little kid I had small turtle named Aeschillus. Later I had two horses, half-brothers, whose names meant the same in two different languages - Meraklija in Serbian and Kefli in Hebrew both mean "one who truly enjoys life and good things in life". My wife was a better namer of horses - her last one, the one she brought into the marriage, she named Double Helix and his barn nickname was Watson. A cat and a dog also became "…
aardvarchaeology | September 25, 2007
The twenty-fourth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Paddy K's Swedish Extravaganza. It's a particularly populous and witty edition. Check it out! Archaeology and anthropology to scratch your pubic lice and soothe your fear of the cave bear.
The next open hosting slot is on 24 October 7 November. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me. You don't have to be an anthropologist, but bipedalism is encouraged.
clock | September 25, 2007The highlight of this week's foodblogging event must have been last night's dinner at Piedmont restaurant in Durham.
Anton has several posts about the events of the past couple of days, including a detailed description (including the menu, and exactly who was there - about 30 people) of the dinner itself. I came a little late (because I always get lost in Durham as the layout of that city always stumps Google Maps), but as soon as I started chatting with the wonderful people there and eating the wonderful food, my mood changed for the better and I really enjoyed the evening (yes, while…
neurophilosophy | September 25, 2007Recently, I've been getting the occasional duplicated comment. I thought this had something to do with the comments being held in moderation, but, as Brian explains, it appears to be because of an error.
Thanks Brian.
clock | September 25, 2007This is why you should attend ConvergeSouth. OK, Anton will lead a session, and so will I, but check out the entire program - it is just getting more and more amazing every year! And it is probably the most pleasant and enjoyable conference in any given year.
clock | September 25, 2007And it is hard to find anyone better than Brian:
I am now available for hire to consult on the creation, care, and feeding of online communities. Plus I can create audio and video for the web. To get an idea of my professional experience you can check out my resume here and my portfolio here.
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I'm interested in working for non-profits, businesses, and progressive political campaigns. I can help you make your own media and demonstrate how it will strengthen your mission and benefit your organization financially. But most important is communicating with customers,…