why blog

tags: meme, blogging, Why Blog?, navel gazing, lint picking Steffi Suhr, who writes Science Behind the Scenes at Nature Network, is (re)asking this popular meme in the wake of the internecine explosion that ensued after a misunderstanding at the recent Science Online 2010 conference expanded to encompass the two best and biggest English-speaking science blog sites in the world: Nature Network and ScienceBlogs. The questions; What made you start blogging? Is a sense of community an important part of blogging for you, or do you prefer blogging 'solo'? Are there blogs you never look at? If…
tags: Ask a Science Blogger, why blog, blogs and science careers The most recent "Ask a Science Blogger" question submitted by a reader is [ask a question of your own]; There are many, many academic bloggers out there feverishly blogging about their areas of interest. Still, there are many, many more academics who don't. So, why do you blog and how does blogging help with your research? There are a lot of reasons that I write a blog. First and foremost, I love writing. Writing has been my voice in a world that refused to hear me, it has been my invisible companion that kept me from being…