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Nature this week has a nice feature article on blogging in science, by Eryn Brown and Chris Woolston: “Why science blogging still matters”.
Nature this week has a nice feature article on blogging in science, by Eryn Brown and Chris Woolston: “Why science blogging still matters”.
This is a nice piece in ChronicleVitae by Terry McGlynn: “Why Blogging Is Still Good for Your Career”.
A short piece “On the evolution of the science blogosphere” by the Andy Extance of the ScienceSeeker team has some interesting notes on current statistics in...
From Dave Winer: “A note about blogging”.
I don’t have an official anniversary date for blogging. I had many false starts, and I spent a good part of 2004 developing the current iteration of the blog...
For the past five days, I’ve been cataloguing dozens of fossils from the Rising Star site. The National Geographic Rising Star Expedition blog has some incre...
Sara Perry writing on Savage Minds, this time with an interesting historical story about the Wellcome Collection’s recent “Brains: Mind as Matter” exhibition...
Sabine Hossenfelder gives some useful advice about “Should you write a science blog?”.
Current Biology is running a short editorial by Geoffrey North, wishy-washing its way through a non-opinion about the value of blogging in science (“Social M...
Nature’s “SpotOn” feature has interviewed University of Rhode Island biological anthropologist Holly Dunsworth about her social media mastery: “Social Media ...
Jason Antrosio has composed a short report on the “Anthropology Blogosphere 2013 Ecology of Online Anthropology”. I appreciate his kind words about my work ...
Why should academics consider blogging, and when should they band together to work on a group blog? An interview from early 2012 helps to answer those questi...
I’ve had a paper on my desktop for more than a week expecting to write a comment on it, and now happily I discover that the first author, Becky Farbstein, ha...
Software designer and blogging pioneer Dave Winer:
Paul Knoepfler, a UC-Davis cell biologist, runs a very active blog in which he discusses the science of stem cells. One of his recurrent themes is strong cri...
Jack Hitt writing in the NY TImes writes some thoughts on the way that online post-publication commentary and review are changing the authority of scientific...
Maria Konnikova takes a psychological experiment on memory into an excursion on literature: “On writing, memory, and forgetting: Socrates and Hemingway take ...
Two experts on social policy from the London School of Economics comment on the importance of blogging and public outreach for academics, in an interview rep...
Andrea Novicki has published some of her notes on the session that I organized with Jason Goldman at ScienceOnline2012: “Blogging in the undergraduate classr...
This morning I read a notice from our Division of Continuing Studies, pointing to how their online resource library had received more than one million visits...
John Timmer’s reporting on the rise and fall of the hypothesis that XMRV causes chronic fatigue syndrome is the best I’ve seen so far on the topic: “How a Co...
Daniel Lende reports on the AAA panel on Digital Anthropology: Projects and Platforms.
Zachary Cofran has been dissertation blogging about his work on dental development in robust australopithecines: “Data, development and diets”. An interestin...
My essay in Anthropologies (“What’s wrong with anthropology”) is cited by Monalisa Gharavi in a review for Social Text of David Graeber’s new book, Debt: The...
Paul Krugman comments on how the growth in academic blogs in economics is a continuation of publication trends that long predate the World Wide Web: “Our blo...
Consultant and former humanities student James Mulvey offers advice for how to make your online writing have more impact: “Expand your blog’s reach”. Yes, I’...
Christie Wilcox makes a case that every lab should be doing science outreach on social media: “Social media for scientists Part 1: It’s our job, and Part 2: ...
Popular Science writer Tom Clynes gives us a long profile of Felisa Wolfe-Simon, who became a lightning rod for criticism after she authored an article claim...
An interesting conversation has emerged over the last few weeks on several economics and legal blogs, usefully encapsulated by Kim Krawiec at The Faculty Lou...
Stephen T. Casper writes on “Why academics should blog”, with an interesting historical perspective. Once upon a time, faculty clubs, dining facilities and p...
Scicurious has written a very nice howto giving concrete advice about blogging a conference: “How To Blog a Conference”. Lots and lots of good ideas and advi...
Recently Jay Rosen tweeted (via Storify):
Last month, Virginia Gewin put an article in Nature about social media and science, which is now available online for free: “Social media: Self-reflection, o...
I so totally wish I’d thought of this first: “An Open Letter To People Who Think They Have Found The Artifact That Will Change Archaeology As We Know It”
Following up on Nicolas Laracuente’s Storify collections of tweets from the SAA meetings, I wanted to point to his compilation from the Blogging Archaeology ...
Colleen Morgan is preparing for a session on blogging and archaeology at the SAA meetings later this month and has started a carnival to highlight posts from...
More than most will admit, scientists today depend on good science writing. What they read is coming from other scientists, from bloggers and students, and f...
Do texts and tweets “change the nature of in-depth analysis”? Wired commentator Clive Thompson thinks so, because they take away the impetus for “middle-form...
Nature last week posted an open access editorial, “Response required”, on the need for authors of high-profile papers to engage with online commentary on blo...
Nature’s Gene Russo has a nice article this week about scientists’ attitudes toward colleagues who do lots of public outreach: “Outreach: Meet the press”.
From a piece in The Tennesseean, worthy of a place in the Onion except it’s apparently serious: “Internet bloggers uncrafted output completely self-serving”
Farhad Manjoo at Slate enters an essay, “This Is Not A Blog Post” hand-wringing about the convergence of blogs and magazines.
Noah Snyder-Mackler’s continuing series in the NY Times’ “Scientist at Work” blog has been providing a journal of his fieldwork on gelada baboons.
Wired editor David Rowan wrote last week about “How to save science journalism”. It’s a long essay, discussing the problems traditional media outlets have su...
If you’re an instructor curious about how to introduce blogs in your courses, you may want to read this post by Daniel Lende at the new Neuroanthropology. He...
PLoS now has blogs. The announcement accentuates that they have an equal representation of scientists and science journalists.
The Guardian now has a small network of science blogs. Their launch announcement includes this surprising factoid:
Kent Anderson: “Do you really need all that website?”
I’ve collected several links over the past few days to people thinking about the role of blog networks in the science blogome. Several essays worth reading i...
From Dave Winer’s discussion of bootstrapping and Web 2.0 technologies:
UPDATE (2015-01-02): After moving the site to a different platform (Jekyll), I am no longer using the inline bibliography function. If you are looking for th...
Bora Zivkovic leaves ScienceBlogs and reminds us of the imprint that blogging has made on some careers in the last five years. Reading his thoughts on bloggi...
If you haven’t had your fill of angsty petulance, then Scienceblogs and its stable of writers have been wading through Edward versus Jacob territory. Jonatha...
I’m just back from the physical anthropology meetings. What a lot of interesting things there were – a few in the sessions, and many outside of them!
I had a surprise this weekend. After years of declining value through increasing noise, I’d essentially stopped checking my Technorati stats. What had degrad...
An interesting factoid from Bora Zivkovic, writing about PLoS media coverage:
The Times Higher Education supplement:
I read Chris Anderson’s book because it was, well, “Free”. The book’s thesis is simple: Sometimes people profit by giving things away.
It’s that time of year again, when students all over the country are facing their first writing assignment. I always encourage a bloggy style – concise, jour...
Nature’s editorial, “How to stop blogging” (which might sound like a self-help piece), takes a position on the conference blogging issue:
Today’s Nature picks up the conference blogging story that I covered last week. An interesting perspective:
No, I’m not doing that right now. Elizabeth Pennisi reports that some science writers are miffed about bloggers at scientific conferences:
The New York Times has a story in its Fashion section: “Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest”
This is off the usual topics, but I mentioned once how poorly colors were coming out when I save sketchbook pieces as JPG. They look great in Photoshop, but ...
Nature (open access) discusses the decline of science journalism and the rise of blogs. The article profiles John Timmer, whose stuff at Nobel Intent I read ...
I’m writing this post live from the Kaleidoscope program here at UW. My part of today’s program is a workshop on sharing your work with the world, using blog...
This week’s Nature has a surprising editorial about the value of scientific blogging:
Andrew Sullivan reflects in an essay in this month’s Atlantic about how blogging has evolved for him. I don’t usually read Sullivan, but this is well put tog...
The Boston Globe runs a piece on “open science” (big in the Boston area) and hits on an obvious problem: