What should be the title of the Science Blogging Anthology?

Posted on December 26, 2006 by | 6 Comments

Here 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 scientist to help me evaluate all the entries.
Now, what should be title of the book? How about “The Open Laboratory” or “The Online Laboratory” suggesting both that it is about science and that the Web is a place for experimentation with a new medium and new ways of communication. What do you think? Any other suggestions?

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6 responses to “What should be the title of the Science Blogging Anthology?”

  1. Jonathan Vos Post's avatar Jonathan Vos Post | December 26, 2006 at 3:06 pm |

    I Blog Therefore I Am.
    E = MCblog
    Blogular Hypothesis
    Principia Blogula
    Equal and Opposite Blog
    Blogging for Science
    Nature versus Nurture versus Blog
    Survival of the Bloggest
    The Blogvinci Code
    The Blogomeda Strain
    The Blogs Themselves
    I, Blogger
    The Blog is a Harsh Mistress
    Scientists Split the Blog
    SciBlog
    The Blob versus the Blog
    Big Bang Blog
    Chitty-Chitty Blog-blog
    The Blog Textbook of Science
    Unified Blog Theory
    1, 2, 3, Blogfinity
    Blogging on the Shoulders of Giants
    The Nobel Prize of Blogs

  2. Julia's avatar Julia | December 26, 2006 at 3:28 pm |

    I like titles that say, rather than suggest, exactly what the book is. The only phrase so far that does that for me is “Science Blogging Anthology.”

  3. J-Dog's avatar J-Dog | December 26, 2006 at 3:45 pm |

    Jonathon – Outstanding! They are all good!

  4. John Wilkins's avatar John Wilkins | December 26, 2006 at 10:59 pm |

    Blogology…
    and you want a poem? Here it is:
    I think that I shall never see
    A definition of a tree
    For trees evolved in many ways
    With diff’rent forms, in diff’rent days
    So resolution of the term
    Requires phylogeny, not form
    And Aristotle was not right
    To hold morphology to light
    And think that habitat would be
    Enlightening, and nor should we
    [Slightly modified from the published version…]

  5. nbm's avatar nbm | December 27, 2006 at 9:15 am |

    You might put out a call on DKos, Coturnix. Knowledgable folks there may have suggestions from that blog. Education, for example. (It’s not ALL global warming…)

  6. The neurophilosopher's avatar The neurophilosopher | January 6, 2007 at 12:51 pm |

    How about “Classic Science Blogging”?