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laelaps | August 11, 2008Many thanks to everyone who introduced themselves on this blog over the weekend. (If you missed it, don't be shy. Feel free to add to the thread.) Community is a major part of what science blogging is all about and I certainly appreciate all the questions, comments, and criticisms left here since I started last October. Hell, without help and advice from many of you I definitely would not have achieved what I have this past year alone, and I think it is wonderful how science bloggers can help each other.
Following ScienceWoman's lead, then, I thought it was only right to post my own quick bio…
laelaps | August 11, 2008After a long hiatus The Boneyard will return here tomorrow. If you've got a paleo-post from the last month to contribute send it to me (evogeek AT gmail DOT com) sometime today. I'm looking forward to bringing this carnival back so please send in your contributions as soon as you can.
skookumchick | August 10, 2008So Facebook's newest thing is this Blog Networks application thingie. Our blog has a page there, so if you use Facebook, drop on over for a visit!
laelaps | August 9, 2008more cat pictures
This afternoon I'll be hanging out with the NYC Skeptics and ScienceBlogs fans in New York but I know that many of you (for obvious reasons) can't be there. In lieu of a meet-up in meatspace, then, why not introduce yourself here?
Each blog is a little community unto itself, and even if you don't normally write I would encourage you to leave a comment about who you are and why you like to read this blog. If the last de-lurking day is any indication this blog attracts readers like a hapless Tenontosaurus lures hungry Deinonychus, everyone from professional paleontologists to…
aardvarchaeology | August 7, 2008The forty-fifth and forty-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnivals are on-line at Remote Central and Testimony of the Spade. Archaeology and anthropology, two entire carnivals about the ancient uses of buergerite!
Buergerite, you will remember, is a mineral species belonging to the tourmaline group. It was first described for an occurrence in rhyolitic cavities near Mexquitic, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. It was approved as a mineral by the King-Emperor of Pannonia-Scythia-Transbalkania in 1966.
Submissions will henceforth be sent to my personal email address, not to the old submissions address.…
clock | August 7, 2008The London Science Blogging Conference now has a Facebook page for discussions. Perhaps they will also have a FriendFeed room, like the BioBarCamp folks did - it was fascinating following the meeting from afar there these two days.
In the meantime, we had a secret meeting about, well, providing some neat surprises for you for the ScienceOnline'09 meeting (a.k.a., the Third Science Blogging Conference), bigger and better than ever - the website and wiki will be up in about ten days or so, watch this space for updates....
clock | August 7, 2008It's not just McCain who does not understand the Internet, it's his operatives as well:
Spread John McCain's official talking points around the Web -- and you could win valuable prizes!
That, in essence, is the McCain campaign's pitch to supporters to join its new online effort, one that combines the features of "AstroTurf" campaigning with the sort of customer-loyalty programs offered by airlines, hotel chains, restaurants and the occasional daily newspaper.
On McCain's Web site, visitors are invited to "Spread the Word" about the presumptive Republican nominee by sending campaign-supplied…
clock | August 7, 2008Jeff Jarvis - The myth of the creative class:
Internet curmudgeons argue that Google et al are bringing society to ruin precisely because they rob the creative class of its financial support and exclusivity: its pedestal. But internet triumphalists, like me, argue that the internet opens up creativity past one-size-fits-all mass measurements and priestly definitions and lets us not only find what we like but find people who like what we do. The internet kills the mass, once and for all. With it comes the death of mass economics and mass media, but I don't lament that, not for a moment.
The…
clock | August 7, 2008You can see it better, as well as add more hits (wiki-style) here. And internet memes are questionnaires that people tag each other to do. These are fads or hits, not memes.
skookumchick | August 7, 2008A few weeks ago, Ed over at Not Exactly Rocket Science invited his readers to tell him a little bit about themselves. We thought that was a cool idea, and decided to ask y'all to do similarly as we go into the fall. So, in that vein...
Who are you? What brought you to read this blog? Why have you stayed reading this blog? Any requests for topics you'd like us to talk about this fall?
Also, please consider this an invitation to delurk if you are a habitual lurker.
We can't wait to find out more about you all! Thanks.
[Updated: similar threads for DrugMonkey, Blog Around the Clock,…
laelaps | August 6, 2008I won't make excuses; I left The Boneyard in disrepair for too long. Now I'm bringing it back, and even though there are a few minor changes (it will now be on the first Tuesday of every month) I'm hoping that I will be able to keep it consistently running from here on out.
Since we have already passed the first Tuesday of the month I'll improvise and hold The Boneyard XXII next week. That means if you want in you'll have to send me your submissions (anything from the last month will do) by Monday evening. Once the carnival has a foothold here it will move elsewhere in September, so leave a…
neurophilosophy | August 6, 2008
The Science Blogging Conference will be held at the Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS, on August 30th, 2008.
According to the organizers, the event has now reached its attendance capacity, but if you'd like to be placed on the waiting list, send an email to network[at]nature.com, with the subject line 'Science blogging conference', stating your job title, affiliation and a link to your blog if you have one.
Here's the conference programme, and below is a list of registered attendees, along with links to their Nature Network profiles and blogs/websites.
Registered…
neurophilosophy | August 5, 2008A few neuroscience blogs I've come across recently, most of them new:
V1
Dr. Shock
Frontal Blogotomy
Neuronism
NeuroTechnica
NeuroWhoa!
Persistent Activity
skookumchick | August 5, 2008So on the bottom of our posts is a helpful little note that says "posted by" and either Alice or SW, as the case may be. We also occasionally tag our posts as coming from either Alice or ScienceWoman. And yet, it may be confusing who is speaking when, especially for those folks reading the blog with RSS feeds. So, taking a page from Shelley and Steve over at Two Minds, we're going to try to mark the beginning of our posts with a little icon from our profile photos. Voila. Let us know if this makes things better, or if it is really irritating. Thanks.
clock | August 5, 2008
The website is up, read the rules carefully, check out the categories, think deeply, collect all the needed URLs and start nominating. But first, why don't you drop those URLs in the comments here as well, so we can all discover bloggers we may not know about as well?
For the LGBT category, there is nobody who can beat Pam.
But for the "Best Science/Technology Blog" category, you know there will be techies there galore. Can we nominate, promote and vote for a science blogger?
How about my SciBling Karen Ventii?
Or Samia?
Or Clifford?
Or The Urban Scientist?
Who am I missing?
Perhaps if we…
clock | August 5, 2008I heard that this is how it happened: when I went to Belgrade and talked about OA at the med school at University of Belgrade, I mentioned that Vedran is the local Web guru for them if they need anything. Someone from the Oncology hospital was there and later she contacted Vedran and asked him to make a blog aggregator that pulls together what people are writing about cancer. So, he did it - the Oncology Blog Aggregator is now live. If you know of good cancer blogs that should be included in the aggregator, let me know in the comments.
clock | August 4, 2008When writing about blogs, the Corporate Media does not always make total fools of themselves. For instance, this article on medblogging is quite even-handed and good.