Blogging
clock | August 21, 2007My Scibling Tara Smith together with Steven Novella, published an article in PLoS Medicine last week that all frequent readers of science blogs will find interesting:
HIV Denial in the Internet Era:
Because these denialist assertions are made in books and on the Internet rather than in the scientific literature, many scientists are either unaware of the existence of organized denial groups, or believe they can safely ignore them as the discredited fringe. And indeed, most of the HIV deniers' arguments were answered long ago by scientists. However, many members of the general public do not…
clock | August 21, 2007Here are a few pertinent quotes, but read the entire articles as well as long comment threads.
Ed Cone:
Skube published an opinion piece about blogs that, with the help of his editors at the LA Times, failed to uphold the journalistic standards he preaches.
It's not the first time that Skube has opined out of ignorance on this subject. I called the Pulitzer winner's previous column for the N&R a "virtually content-free rant, citing no blogs, showing no signs he did any research by reading blogs...crap." Then I phoned Skube and found he had said little because he knew little and cared…
retrospectacle | August 21, 2007So the idea was hatched a few months back in our seeeeeeecret SciBlogger back channel, that we really all wanted a vacation and to hang out for hours together in person instead of in the forums. This nebulous idea rapidly crystallized into a time and a place, with a loose schedule draped around long periods of "free time" (aka "bar time"). The place was Union Square in New York City, and we were going to do a few things: have a tour of the SEED offices, a bash at SEED overlord Adam Bly's posh pad, and a Saturday morning brunch which would be a filmed round-table discussion about science and…
clock | August 20, 2007OK, this will be the last series of pictures of my Sciblings from the shindig of the past weekend. As you may have noticed, several others have posted their recollections and pictures on their blogs. You can also see some pictures on Flickr and Facebook and please add and tag more if you have them.
I have noticed it several times before, but this is something that really came out in full force at the Meetup as we really feel like an online family - meeting people online can produce real freindships. Then, when you meet offline for the first time after years of cyberchatter, there is…
neurophilosophy | August 20, 2007 ...in the Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science is a fantastic new blog that needs a shorter name. It's by Jack Josephy, who's studying philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Sussex.
See also Distributed Neuron, by Zachary Tong, a biology undergraduate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
retrospectacle | August 20, 2007So by now some of you may have heard that SEED threw a nice bash for us ScienceBloggers, and a gaggle of us went up to New York City to do whatever it is that online bloggers do when they get together in real life.
Well, as to the latter, it involved quite a few rounds of shots and then doing Journey on kareoke. Oh wait, thats just what I did. Heh.
Anyway, I just got back late late last night and am officially dead to the world until tomorrow, so I'll be reporting in full about the crazy nerd-soaked weekend I had in New York then.
Now for a nap...
clock | August 19, 2007OK, so a bunch of us sciencebloggers went to New York City this weekend. This is something that we were trying to do for almost a year now. Sure, many of us Sciblings have met one-on-one on occasion, but this was an opportunity to get many of us together all in the same place at the same time, to have fun together and see what happens.
So, on Friday, most of us managed to meet at Seed magazine's (and scienceblogs.com) offices. That is where we started on our first beers....(see my pictures from the event posted on Saturday, as well as other people's pictures)
Then we went to a Brewery on…
clock | August 19, 2007Under the fold, Saturday morning pictures from New York City Sciblings meetup, at Union Square Inn and a pastry/coffee place where we had breakfast
Suzanne Franks
Dave and Greta Munger
Dave Munger, Rob Knop and Mo Costandi
Evil Monkey and Tara Smith
Janet Stemwedel
Janet Stemwedel and Karmen Franklin
Karmen Franklin and Sheril Kirshenbaum
Kevin Beck
Me again....
Me and Mo Costandi
Mo Costandi
Mo Costandi and Rob Knop
Mo Costandi, Rob Knop and Dave Munger
Rob Knop
Rob Knop, Dave Munger and Janet Stemwedel
RPM
Sheril Kirshenbaum
Steve Higgins
Related:
Housekeeping…
clock | August 18, 2007A bunch of Sciblings meeting at the Seed offices in New York City on Friday Afternoon....updated with a couple of more pictures and links....(several more people came late, after my batteries died...)
Chris Rowan
Jennifer Jacquet
Katherine Sharpe
Katherine Sharpe
Katherine Sharpe, Virginia Hughes and Mo Costandi
Katherine Sharpe, Virginia Hughes and Chris Rowan
Catharine Zivkovic
Chad Orzel
Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney, Ginny Hughes, Karmen Franklin, Janet Stemwedel and me.
Chris Rowan and Mo Costandi
Evil Monkey, PZ Myers and Tara Smith
Ginny Hughes
Ginny Hughes…
clock | August 18, 2007To me.
My very first post was on August 18, 2004 - seems like a century ago.
Anyway, the wifi at the hotel is very week so I will have to wait until Monday to post a couple of hundred pictures from the Seed scienceblogs meetup. In the meantime, I have placed a few of the pics on Facebook, and the Flickr tag is 'sciblings07'.
clock | August 18, 2007Come and meet the Sciblings
About 30 or so of us Seed sciencebloggers are in New York City this weekend (many, many pictures to come), but if you want to see for yourself that we actually exist and our blogs are not written by robots, meet us at BBar and Grill at the corner of Bowery and 3rd starting around 7pm until they kick us out.
clock | August 16, 2007As could have been expected, I am now officially the blogmeister of the PLoS blog. I have just posted my first introductory post there. It is a Drupal blog. The above and below the fold parts are separate (you see one or the other, not both at the same time) so this will take some getting used to. There will be, in the coming weeks and months, changes to the blog and I want your input. Post your suggestions in the comments over there. The comments are moderated for now due to excessive influx of spam, so be patient when you post comments there - I will approve them as fast as I can.
aardvarchaeology | August 15, 2007The twentyfirst Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Archaeolog. Check it out! Archaeology and anthropology to make you squeal and titter with delight.
There's an open hosting slot on 26 September 10 October and further ones later in the fall. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me.
clock | August 15, 2007The Science Blogging Anthology is meant to showcase the quality and diversity of writing on science blogs. 'Diversity' does not mean only the range of scientific disciplines, but also the diversity of topics, styles and, yes, forms. We have included one poem last year and we'd like to receive some more poetic submissions this year as well.
But, new this year, we will also accept cartoons and comic strips. So, if you draw your own in black & white and own the copyright to your drawings, please submit the URLs to the submission form.
clock | August 15, 2007Key findings of a new study by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates LLC exploring the online behaviors of U.S. teens and 'tweens show:
* 96 percent of students with online access use social networking technologies, such as chatting, text messaging, blogging, and visiting online communities such as Facebook, MySpace, and Webkinz. Further, students report that one of the most common topics of conversation on the social networking scene is education.
* Nearly 60 percent of online students report discussing education-related topics such as college or college…
clock | August 14, 2007Paul, Danica and Daveawayfromhome recently tagged me with the Eight Random Facts Meme, although I have already done it before, so let me try to come up with Random Facts Nine Through Sixteen.
9. I used to sing karaoke every Tuesday while in grad school (well, everyone goes crazy in grad school), always singing the most unlikely songs, e.g., country, the sappiest oldies and the songs by female vocalists. I do a mean "I Will Survive"- even DJs crack up.
10. I got fired once - I was 14 or 15 at the time. So, instead of mucking out horse stalls, I spent some time clipping hedges and mowing…
clock | August 14, 2007Corie Lok notes an article which claims that Boston is the most bloggerific per capita city in the USA. They must have only looked at the biggest cities. Because nobody beats Blogsboro Greensboro NC. Is there anyone in Greensboro who does not have a blog?
clock | August 13, 2007The last week's conversation about an icon that bloggers could use to indicate they are writing about peer-reviewed research has progressed towards something closer to implementable. Pitch in over there in the comments.
aardvarchaeology | August 11, 2007Wednesday 15 August will see the Four Stone Hearth blog carnival appear in all its archaeo/anthro glory at Archaeolog. If you have read or blogged anything good on those themes lately, then make sure to submit it to one of the blog editors ASAP. (You are encouraged to submit stuff you've found on other people's blogs.)
There's an open hosting slot on 26 September and further ones later in the fall. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me.
clock | August 9, 2007As I predicted, bloggers have waited a day or two before they wrote much of substance abour Scifoo. First, you don't want to miss out on any cool conversations by blogging instead. Second, the experience is so intense, one needs to cool down, process and digest everything. Before I write my own thoughts, here are some links to places where you can see what others are doing:
The campers are joining the Science Foo Camp Facebook group (honor system - only campers are supposed to join, but it is open) and exchanging links, pictures and information.
There is an official aggregator where you can…