After 6 planes, 2 trains, 6 NYC Metro trains, three cabs and one bus, I am finally back from the whirlwind tour of Greenville, South Carolina (for the The 2010 Conference on Communicating Science), New York City (a few hours each on Friday and Monday at the SciAm office) and New Haven, CT (for the ScienceWriters2010 NASW/CASW meeting). Nice to be home for a while!
ScienceWriters2010 was a fantastic experience – there were about 600 people there and I have met many people who I only knew online before (or even only from their bylines). I blogged and tweeted very little, as people who I hope are my audience were mostly there so I thought it would be much nicer to just talk kface-to-face for a change. But other people did much more – check out #sciwri10 hashtag on Twitter, and the official conference blog. Most NASW sessions were recorded so you can watch videos (including of my panel – Rebooting the News) and slide-casts of them here.
The Scientific American Guest Blog is busy – today saw a new post by Jennifer Jacquet – Ecologists: Wading from nature to networks. More to come tomorrow, and pretty much every work-day between now and ScienceOnline2011 (and probably beyond). Pitch me a topic for a guest-post if interested at Bora@sciam.com.
Tomorrow will be a busy day – trying to turn this busy page into an actual ScienceOnline2011 program, so we can open for registration on Wednesday at 12noon EST.
Also, don’t forget to submit your (and other people’s) blog posts (essays, stories, art, poetry, cartoons, comic strips, etc) for the Open Laboratory anthology as there are only three weeks left.
Shirky: The Shock of Inclusion and New Roles for News in the Fabric of Society
How to beat the media in the climate street fight
Maybe ‘New Media’ Needs a New Metaphor and The Penthouse Is Falling and Taking Down Britney Spears: How Science Writers Can Fight for a Spot in the Media.
Generation Why? and Literary Writers and Social Media: A Response to Zadie Smith and See Who’s Using the Internet to Make Life Less Meaningful
Breathtaking editorial arrogance
Is IRE the best way to respond to blog comments?
Should “Happy Meals” Aimed at Kids Be Banned to Help Curb Childhood Obesity?
My tour of Yale biotech facilities
Off to New Haven, maybe a post, no tweets from this guy (but from others, yes) and ScienceWriters2010 – of non-profit biz models. Some hallway grumbling too over who hires, who doesn’t, and where one’s copy goes
‘Gigantic’ bison skull unearthed in Snowmass
The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics
Amazon.com Editorial Team Unveils Best Books of 2010 List
Four Indispensable Methods for Organizing Group Attention
The Science of Kissing in SciAm MIND
Clever cartoon from PLoS about the ridiculous economic model of academic publishing
Urban Wildlife Watch: Chinese Chestnut Tree
Asia’s Push for Nuclear Power — a Wise Bet?
Scientists Probe Beak Trouble in Alaskan and Northwestern Birds
Twitter Increases Student Engagement [STUDY]
Biologists capture, collar male panther near recent calf depredations
Humor in Scientific Publications and A link everyone will find useful
Welcome to Hardtack and Sardines
Win a travel award for best evolution-themed blog
What Do the 2010 Election Results Mean for Federal Science Budgets?
An emerging super pathogen threatens us all
Scientists look at crops, bugs and animals
UNC team identifies a ‘tipsy’ gene
Why Do Pro Kickers Opt for Soccer Style?
Neurocriminology in prohibition-era New York
Cristina Eisenberg, “The Mark of the Wolf’s Tooth”
Demographics as political destiny
The Carnal Carnival – CC#4: Orgasm! Call for Submissions
Whitehouse.gov should be a super-hyperlocal blog
Oil from the BP Disaster May Remain Thick on the Seafloor
U.S. News & World Report to Become Online Only
DNA sequence may be lost in translation
What Do the 2010 Election Results Mean for Federal Science Budgets?
Drivel on Facebook more valuable than we think
Stem cell research faces uncertain future after the elections
The Great Migrations Blog Carnival
The cybershrink will see you now
Beyond the PDF – it is time for a workshop
The Open Source Paleontologist: A Flood of Paleo Articles in PLoS ONE
How do we reveal the hidden patterns in data? and Looking for a story? Try a spreadsheet.
Video for the Web and Telling stories with video and Shooting 101: Video for Writers
Here are a few of their favorite tools: Experiments in social media, part 2
Secrets from the seasoned: making a medical conference work for you
Tweeting the meeting and A recipe for networking and The new new firewalls and Point and shoot and A whole new world and Hello ScienceWriters!
Daylight Saving Time 2010: Why and When It Ends
Readers Respond to “How Babies Think” and Other Articles
Ssssuccessss: World’s rarest snake is back from the brink
Harper’s: Former Scientific American editor pens bombshell Churchill critique
Yap, Inc., Brings Us the Speech Cloud
Oil Sands: A Personal Decision About a Dirty Fuel
Radioactive rabbit trapped near Richland
In Which David Carr Teaches You about Reporter Branding
What Is Psychopathology? Examining the Changing Status of ADHD and What Is Mental Illness? A Mini-Carnival
On science blogs this week: Gathering
This Week in Review: Rupert’s online reader purge, election-night innovation, and ideas at ONA10
Quintiles’ Dennis Gillings Profiled in Forbes
The Very Big And The Very Small
A Blog Around The Clock 
Wow, I got travel fatigue jut reading about your journey.
Wow, I got travel fatigue just reading about your journey.