Category Archives: Blogging

Scott Singleton is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Grrrl, PZ and John will be panelists at the Media Worskshop during the next SICB meeting. You bet I am jealous! SICB is the coolest of all science meetings ever!
Their workshop is about science blogging:

Media Workshop: Hey, Wanna Read My Blog?
Blogs are online “diaries” that are growing in popularity. Popular political and social commentary blogs are making the news, but is there more out there than chatty gossip and collections of links? How about some science? Can this trendy technology be useful for scientists? Come to the Media Workshop and find out! Experienced science bloggers P.Z. Myers (Pharyngula), Grrl Scientist (Living the Scientific Life), and John Lynch (Stranger Fruit) answer your questions about how blogging works, setting one up, finding things to write about, and using the medium for your classes, for research, or for educating the public.

I hope there will be a video of the entire workshop posted online so we can watch it before (just two weeks before) the Science Blogging Conference. We’ll have more time to cover more topics, so I’d be interested to see what they manage to cover during their workshop and what important points they will make. And of course, their own thoughs on the session afterwards.

Ryan Somma is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Tom Linden is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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I went a little too fast a couple of days ago, but now it is true – Neurontic is on board! Go say Hello to Orli, our newest SciBling!

Ouida Myers is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Pacific Institute Integrity of Science Blog has just moved from the old place to a shiny new blog here at scienceblogs.com. Go say Hello.

Ifeoma Ndefo is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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2006 Weblog Awards finals are now open for voting. The main menu is here. You can vote once per 24 hours over the next 10 days.
You can go directly to the Best Science Blog category and…good luck! Is there a science blog on the list anyone can NOT like?
Medical Blogs? Orac? Cheerful Oncologist? Again, a tough choice.
How about the Best Educational Blog? Berube? Education Wonks? Hard to choose.
Best Blog? Yuk! What horrendous choices! Only DailyKos deserves a vote from the whole list. When are Koufaxes starting?
Best New Blog – I only know (and like) Konagod.
Best Individual Blog. My first vote went to Majikthise. I’ll see later when it gets tough which of the good ones (Majikthise, Glenn Greenwald or Talking Points Memo) has the greatest chance to beat the Rightwingers.
Best Humor Blog – Jon Swift or Sadly, No?
Online Community. DailyKos again?!
Best Liberal Blog – again a cornucopia of goodness. Who shall I choose? Shakespeare’s Sister? Pandagon? My blogfather of Legal Fiction? Hullaballoo, Bitch PhD, Jesus’ General are also on top of my list. Hard to pick a favourite at this point.
Best Media Blog. Wolcott hands down.
LGBT Blog. Pam’s House Blend hands down.
Culture Blog – Tom Watson.
Best Podcast – This American Life.
Video Blog – Crooks and Liars.
Video of the Year – Mentos and Diet Coke.
Best European Blog. Fistful of Euros.
Australian/NZ Blog – John Quiggin.
Top 250: Orcinus or Feministe.
Top 3501 – 5000 Blogs – Blue Gal.
Best Of The Rest – Property of a Lady.
There are many more categories but I do not know (or do not like) anyone on the list.
Have I missed someone really good?

Philip Carl is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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The Word of the Day for December 06, 2006 is:
cybrarian \sye-BRAIR-ee-un\ noun
: a person whose job is to find, collect, and manage information that is available on the World Wide Web
Example sentence:
The library provided an e-mail address to submit inquiries to the cybrarian.
Did you know?
We’ve been using “librarian” for the people who manage libraries since at least the beginning of the 18th century, and the word was used for scribes and copyists even earlier than that. “Cybrarian,” on the other hand, is much newer; its earliest documented use is from 1992. “Librarian” combines “library” (itself from “liber,” the Latin word for book) and the noun suffix “-an,” meaning “one specializing in.” When people wanted a word for a person who performed duties similar to those of a librarian by using information from the Internet, they went a step further and combined “cyber-,” meaning “of, relating to, or involving computers or a computer network,” with “librarian” to produce the new “cybrarian.”

So, is a blogger a cybrarian, or is a cybrarian someone who reads blogs and collects information? Or both?

Barrie Hayes is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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The finalists have been announced ina number of categories. Of special interest, of course, are these two categories:
Best Science Blog
Pharyngula
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog
RealClimate
Deltoid
Good Math, Bad Math
Mixing Memory
The Panda’s Thumb
In the Pipeline
Bad Astronomy Blog
SciGuy
Best Medical/Health Issues Blog
Brainhell
Flea
Stayin’ Alive
Short Gut News
Respectful Insolence
The Cheerful Oncologist
A Life Less Convenient
Doc In the Machine
The Cancer Blog
The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl
Hey, six of my SciBlings are there! Voting will open in a couple of days. See the entire list of all categories here.

Omni Brain is in the house!
And so is Neurontic
Go say Hello.
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After a night and half a day of the server being down, the homepage wiki of the Science Blogging Conference is up and running again, so you can sign up if you chose to do it today. And why not today?

Mike Dickison is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Kelly Chi is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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That is my daughter’s favourite bird. I’ll let her read what Chris wrote yesterday (and welcome back from a month-long blog hiatus!).

K.T.Vaughan of the UNC – CH Health Sciences Library is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Go say Hello to Daniel Rhoads, or shall we say Doctor Rhoads.

Julia Connors is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Amy Hughes is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Rosalind Reid of the American Scientist magazine is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you? Rosalind will lead a break-out session on scientific illustration and is inviting participation in the planning of the session on the session’s wiki page.
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How to fight with other bloggers (via)
I tend to avoid getting in fights with individuals. I’d rather insult millions all at once.
(Let’s see if this shows up as Quote on the scienceblogs.com front page tomorrow….)

Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams blog, and the book of the same name, is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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In the similar vein to this morning’s post (and the neccessary link within it) on the speed of meme-spreading, I tried to do this little experiment about a year ago (October 12, 2005) with no success – perhaps because I asked for more than just a link. Now that my audience is much bigger, let’s try again:
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There are estimated to be more than 20 55 million blogs in existence. Somebody somewhere knows the answer to my question. If every one of my readers (who also owns a blog) copies and pastes this post on their blogs, it should spread through the entire blogosphere over just a couple of days. Then, once somebody comes up with the answer to my question, the whole process repeats, with every blogger posting the answer. It should reach me in no less than a week. Let’s try to do this. My question is:
What is the first original use of the phrase: “Note to Self”?
Does it come from a movie, comic strip, TV show (“Police Squad” comes to mind)? If you know the answer, post it on your blog and encourage your readers to do the same. Is the blogosphere such a powerful means of light-speed exchange of information? Let’s prove that it is.

Some things spread like wildfire across the blogs. But, can an artificial meme, designed specifically to measure the speed of its spreading, spread as fast? If we know its speed, can we know its position at the same time, and vice versa? You’ll know the answer (pretty soon) if you link to this from your blog.
Perhaps it would be more useful to track the already existing and popular memes, like Beautiful Bird Meme, Random Quotes Meme, Silly Blog Meme, Four Meme, Zero Meme, Dirty Thirty Meme, States Meme, Obscure-But-Good-Movies Meme, Four Jobs Meme, The Blogging Blog Meme, Browser Meme, Seven Times Seven Meme or many, different, book, memes and compare those that include tagging the recepients to those that are free-for-all, those that are general to all bloggers to those that are specific to one particular corner of the blogosphere, as well as compare these “intelligently designed” memes to those that arise spontaneously when someone posts important piece of news or a cool picture.
Moreover, something like the experiment Acephalous is planning to do has already been done and you can watch the Memetree.
Also, the Academic Blog Meme was tracked as well.

David Kirk is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Danita Russell of Random Ramblings is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Pam has moved from here to here. You have to register to comment, but the process is easy. The new site is built on Soapblox and looks gorgeous. Oh, and you’ll be able to post your own diaries in the near future.
So, change your bookmarks, blogrolls and newsfeeds and enjoy your morning cup of Pam’s brew.

Robert Reddick is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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Rob Gluck of Ivory-bills Live is coming to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Are you?
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