Blogging
clock | April 3, 2007The April issue of The Scientist contains a good article on science blogging, titled Scooped by a Blog by David Secko (Vol. 21, Issue 4, page 21) focusing on publishing data on blogs, running an Open Notebook lab online, and the way blogs are affecting the evolution of science publishing.
The main story of the article is the story about the way Reed Cartwright's quick comment on a paper led to his co-autorship on the subsequent paper on the topic. But you can read all about it on his blog, including the article excerpt on the story.
Others interviewed for the story are Larry Moran and…
clock | April 2, 2007One of my most favouritest blogs has moved from here to the pretty new digs here. And the name has changed to Shakesville to better reflect the fact that it is now a hustling, bustling group blog, not just Melissa's. So, fix your blogrolls and feeds today.
clock | March 31, 2007Alun Salt will be leading a session about the Peer-to-peer publishing and the creative process, i.e., publishing papers on blogs at the Classical Association conference at Birmingham so he has written a post on things he wants to say there - quite an excellent summary of pros and cons of the idea and clearing away some common misperceptions.
clock | March 29, 2007Heureka is an online popular science magazine in Austria which you should check out, especially if you can read German. But some things are in English, including this interview with yours truly...
There also blurbs about it (in German) in derStandard online and hardcopy, as well as on their science blog Sciblog.
aardvarchaeology | March 28, 2007
Dan, Kai, Thinker, Martin R, Paddy K, Tor, Martin C, Harald, Johnny.
Last night's blogmeet at Wirström's pub in Stockholm was a great success. Counting myself and Paddy K, we were nine guys eating and talking and drinking for hours. After a while we recruited three lovely daycare ladies who took our picture and entertained us.
Martin C had trouble finding our group at first because he was looking for a "great big cluster of geeks". I wonder if he meant that our cluster was too small or that we didn't look geeky enough. Our conversation was geeky though, covering endogenous retroviruses,…
clock | March 26, 2007First three months of the year are almost over and... we have only 14 entries so far for the next Science Blogging Anthology!
Everything written and posted since December 20th 2006 is fair game. Have you written something really good since then? Send it in. Have you submitted something to a carnival this year yet? Send it in. Have you hosted a carnival and received some really cool posts? Send them in. Have you discovered a great new science blog that you think everyone should know about? Pick their best post and send it in.
It's easy, just use the submission form or click here:
Help…
clock | March 26, 2007If you are in the Triangle area on these two dates (Saturday, April 28 from 10am to noon and Saturday, May 5 from 10am to noon) and want to get some help starting your own blog, or at least starting a Wordpress blog, come to the Durham Library and we'll help you.
clock | March 26, 2007Alvaro of Sharp Brains (in a comment here) links to a high-school student's science essay that he posted on his blog and asks:
Why couldn't we approach a number of websites where science teachers hang out and propose some kind of essay contest for high-school students, with winning essays published in our blogs?
What do you think?
clock | March 26, 2007During the National Wildlife Week (April 21th - 29th), if you can, please participate in the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz:
Pick a neat little area that you are relatively familiar with and is small enough that you or the group can handle - a small thicket, a pond, a section of stream, or even your backyard - and bring along some taxonomic keys or an Audubon guide, or if you're lucky enough, an expert in local flora and fauna. Set a time limit. Try to identify the different species of organisms that you find as well as the number of each species that you find. Take pictures if you have a…
aardvarchaeology | March 25, 2007On Thursday 29 March I'll be hosting the Skeptics' Circle blog carnival. I'd like to see Aard readers represented: if you've written anything in a skeptical vein recently, feel free to send me a link!
clock | March 25, 2007On the heels of my last week's post, it seems everyone is writing about journalism, blogging, and how to move back from infotainment to actual journalism, as in "information + education" which a populace needs if the democracy is to flourish. So, check out Brad DeLong, Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Greg Anrig and Dave Neiwert on the subject of "boring" journalism and why the GOP does not want you to think policy wonkery is interesting.
aardvarchaeology | March 24, 2007With Aard, I'm now back at 19,000, the Technorati rank I had with my old blog shortly before I moved to ScienceBlogs. It took a bit more than three months. Now, if only Google would give me a fookin' PageRank...
clock | March 23, 2007Jill started blogging on Huffington Post yesterday. Check out her first entry about the The Miss USA Pageant.
clock | March 23, 2007Chris and Mark Hoofnagle have recently started a new blog - Denialism.com which I warmly recommend.
Wanna know what denialism is? Check out their definition, or even better, their article: The Denialists' Deck of Cards: An Illustrated Taxonomy of Rhetoric Used to Frustrate Consumer Protection Efforts
clock | March 22, 2007John McKay started his blog four years ago on this day. Mammoths, Nazis, Creationists, Velikovsky, O'Reilly, salmon, Alaskan ecology, history of science, and much, much more every day at Archy. Go say Hello!
aardvarchaeology | March 22, 2007My buddy Lars Lundqvist, long-time regular Dear Reader and contributor of excellent archaeopix, started a blog three weeks ago: Arkland. It's in Swedish, it's finely illustrated, and it's mainly about Swedish archaeology. Yes, this is the guy who did all those cool digs at Slöinge, Vittene and Saleby. Go have a look and write a comment or two!
aardvarchaeology | March 21, 2007
Dear Reader, watch me toot my own horn (yes, I have a very supple spine).
Technorati doth heed prayer. Or at least it heeds "support tickets". So now this blog is visible again on the top-10 archaeology blogs (currently #3 with 187 linkers) and skepticism blogs (currently #9). Netwide.
clock | March 21, 2007This is kinda funny. Waveflux digs out a couple of truly ancient articles - What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers and What Bloggers Can Learn From Journalists by Steve Outing, which, though not as awful as some (especially the first one), still reveal (especially the second one) the basic misunderstanding of the blogging world in the way we have by now got used to (no editorial control, no accuracy, no money yada-yada-yada). But that was 2004 and one could be excused about not understanding something that was quite new at the time (hey, not THAT new - even I had a blog back in 2004 and I…