Blogging
clock | January 1, 2007The conference is only 19 [13] days from today! It's getting really exciting!
The program is shaping really well:
On Thursday (January 18th) we will have a teach-in session. About 20 people have signed up so far (update: 30, thus the session is now full). We'll use Wordpress to help them start their own blogs, so I'll have to make one of my own in advance and play around to figure out the platform before I teach others.
On Friday (January 19th), we'll have dinner and all the bloggers present will read their posts. We have not decided on the place yet, but perhaps a site that has wifi, or…
clock | January 1, 2007Update: Deadline for submissions is January 2nd at noon EST.
Wow! I posted the call for suggestions on Friday night, it is a weekend and a holiday, the traffic is down to a half, yet I got so many suggestions already, both in the comments and via e-mail! I am also very happy to see how many people are suggesting not just their own but other people's posts. This is going to be heckuva job for me! All science bloggers are my friends and I will have to dissappoint so many of them in the end. I wish I could collect 500 posts instead of just 50.
As I stated in the original post, I am looking…
clock | January 1, 2007
Xan Gregg is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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aardvarchaeology | December 31, 2006I miss the porn surfers. Around my old blog, you could always faintly hear the sound of one hand typing. But these hairy-palmed people haven't made the jump to ScienceBlogs yet.
I could write a serious entry about how Muslim veils are analogous to bikini tops, and they would come running in hoards. "The B word! Someone's used the B word!" Or the times when I wrote about Iron Age war booty sacrifices in bogs, and the hit counter would go crazy. In the heat of the moment, it's easy to mistype "big booty" and get "bog booty".
Currently, Aardvarchaeology isn't generating any Google hits at all. I…
clock | December 31, 2006
Robin Mackar is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 30, 2006
Stephanie Holmgren is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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aardvarchaeology | December 29, 2006Jeez, so much to learn, so many tweaks to do at the new site!
I've turned off comment authentication since people were having trouble with TypeKey. Comment away!
The RSS feed isn't publicised yet, but it works: http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/index.xml (Thanks, Johan Jönsson!).
I'll be posting in Eastern Standard Time, not because I've suddenly relocated across the Atlantic, but because most of the other Sciencebloggers become unfairly underexposed if people east of the US start blogging here on their local time in what passes for the small hours in that great country.
aardvarchaeology | December 29, 2006Back before Christmas, as I was waiting for Scienceblogs to open its doors for me, I checked out the people already inside. Specifically, I wanted to know what sort of scientific backgrounds they had, and what their Technorati rankings were. How would I fit in? Was I a minor player?
In mid December, there were 51 blogs and one metablog on Scienceblogs. None of the bloggers had a main background in the humanities, unless perhaps we count creative writing for the science journalists. The most common scientific leaning by far was various flavours of biology (18 blogs), followed by neuroscience,…
clock | December 29, 2006Martin Rundkvist is a very smart guy. By renaming his blog from Salto Sobrius to Aardvarchaeology, he has displaced my blog from the vaunted #1 spot on the alphabetical list of SB blogs on the front page! Go say Hello and Welcome to this great addition to the Seed blogging family!
clock | December 29, 2006
Becky Oskin is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 28, 2006
Marissa Mills is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 27, 2006
Fiona Morgan of Independent Weekly is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 26, 2006What is the oldest science blog?
Not medicine, not technology/gizmos/gadgets, not conservation, not nature writing, not atheism - a real science blog?
clock | December 26, 2006Here is the background information and here is the growing list of nominations.
I am still looking for a poem, a post about women and/or minorities in science, something from chemistry, geology and/or ecology (not environment/conservation), and a post about stereotypes of scientists in the society (e.g., movies, TV).
I have realized that having an online poll and asking people to evaluate 100+ posts will be too unwieldy, so instead I asked several of my friends, including a couple of SciBlings, several science bloggers not affiliated with Seed, a non-science blogger and a non-blogging…
clock | December 26, 2006This is so old (January 02, 2005) yet quite prescient...
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Some blogs have thousands of daily visitors because they were there first. It is like carbonated drinks. Even if you make a drink that is much better than Coke or Pepsi, you are doomed to bankrupcy because they pre-empted you. And sure, even in the early days there was competition, and people like Kos, Atrios, Billmon, Drum, Marshall etc. were probably better than their competition, thus they are now deservedly the stars of the blogosphere. That does not mean they have managed to retain the high quality of…
clock | December 26, 2006
Patty and her mother Kim Gainer are coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 25, 2006Now that the 2006 Weblog Awards are over (and congratulations to all of my favourites for wins or good showing), we are all warmed up and ready for the Real Deal - the Koufaxes!
First, and most importantly, go over to Wampum and hit their PayPal button (on the left top side-bar), or their Amazon.com donation button, and hit it with as much as you can. The way Koufaxes are done is real - no paperless voting machines there! And that costs. And it helps the community if the good folks of Wampum have enough money for the generator (yes, they make their own power!), servers, new hard-drives and…
clock | December 25, 2006
Terry Smith is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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clock | December 24, 2006
Nicholas J. Meacham is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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