Blogging
gregladen | May 5, 2008I woke up to an icky world this morning. After painfully clearing my lungs and scarfing down some medication, I scanned the TV channels for news. and the blogosphere for inspiration. The TV was giving me mainly god, while the blogosphere was giving me measles, pandemics, murdered sea lions, and this poor eagle with its beak snapped off.
TV land was still in it's pre-day stage (which runs an hour later here in the Midwest). Therefore, fully half or more of the stations were busy peddling Christianity. I learned that it was easier to accept faith and know that God has a plan than to…
gregladen | April 19, 2008This is probably the last thing I'm going to say about pseudonymous blogging. I plan to leave the issue behind forever. Or at least for a few days. The "argument" between DrugMonkey - PhsyioProf - BlaBlaBlaBlog ("the clique") and me has become sterile and senseless, primarily because the clique has ruined it. PalMD over at Denialism Blog has noted that this is a terribly pedantic debate, and I would argue that it is only terribly pedantic on a good day. The other day's it is just terrible. By the way, PalMD's post is excellent, I highly recommend it. (But Pal, please see below, because…
gregladen | April 17, 2008A couple of weeks ago, Bayblab blog requested that I join a discussion on their site regarding pseudonymous blogging. It was obvious to me given the reputation of Bayblab that this was likely an ingenuous request, but I went ahead and joined the discussion anyway.
In the course of that discussion, the question of an individual's credentials being important came up. Very quickly, the anonymous blogger known as "Anonymous Coward" suggested that I was in favor of the idea of "appeal to authority," which was a misrepresentation of my position. I actually wrote a reply to this in the comments…
gregladen | February 27, 2008I hate when people tell me what to blog (and not blog). I blog what I want, you read what you want. When the two coincide, wonderful.
Bayblab, which is apparently some kind of science blog mostly written by anonymous bloggers, has a post critical of certain areas of science blogging.
Mostly it is whining wannabee dribble, sour grapes, and all that, and I couldn't care less about it. But BB makes a deeply disturbing error in conflating science blogging with blogging about peer reviewed reserach. Nothing else is considered "true" science blogging.
Here is my comment on BB's post:…
gregladen | February 26, 2008Well, the Face Book Thing seems to be going fairly well. Scienceblogs.com fanclub now has hundreds of members. My own site has a paltry ten or so, but growing. I hope soon to have eleven. I've been going through the Scienceblogs.com fan club list and begging folks from my old home town (Albany, NY), or who are in Minnesota to be my friends. So far most of them are ditching me. I can see that the life of a stalker would be a depressing one.
Anyway, I think something will happen soon. We'll be notified by the organizers and I'll pass the information on. I think we are all supposed to…
gregladen | January 23, 2008This was one of many questions debated at the Second Annual Scientific Blogging Conference in North Carolina this weekend which I attended together with over 200 other folks who work in scientific communication.
When I told my friends I was going to North Carolina this weekend to attend a blogging conference they either said, "cool - why?" or "you're weird - why?".
Read this thing by Liz Allen