The golden age of blogging was better
A recent blogggingheads episode pointed me to this piece, Shakesville’s unravelling and the not-so-golden age of blogging. I know Melissa McEwan mostly due to her being hired and fired by the John Edwards campaign in 2007 (word of warning: don’t hire bloggers unless you have “checked them out”). I won’t comment on McEwan’s blog because […]
ScienceBlogs is shutting down at the end of the month
The people, whoever they are, at ScienceBlogs have announced that they’ll be shutting down at the end of the month. I actually should have all my archives, so there’s no worry on that end for me. The first few years for Seed were pretty flush for a small operation. There were a couple of blogger […]
Comments on internet publications, what to do?
This is probably relevant if you have a blog or run a webzine of some sort. It’ll be much more abstract if you are a commenter, and can’t relate concretely to weirdo creeps who persistently spam your comments and contact you via email. In …
A history of science blogging
Bora Zivkovic has what is basically a short history of science blogging up. I was one of those who was there at the beginning, and I honestly can’t say that he left anything of great relevance out of the narrative. In normal circumstances I don&#…
3QuarksDaily size writing prize
Sean already mentioned it, and now that I’m feeling a bit better I want to as well: The annual 3QuarksDaily science writing contest nominees are out. You can vote here. Too many of my friends are up for nomination, so I’m going to avoid ma…
Wired Science, a new science blogs network
The empire of the boy-king grows! Meet the New Wired Science All-Star Bloggers. David Dobbs and Brian Switek have already set up their domains, but Dr. Daniel MacArthur will be moving in the near future as well. And to think that Dr. Dan was just a commenter over at ScienceBlogs in the spring of 2006 […]
Science with soul sells
Vivienne Raper who analyzed the Wikio Top 100 Science Blogs left a comment below:
I’m now curious to find out why there are no ‘popular’ blogs in certain subjects. Do working condensed matter physicists who want to engage with the public write about astrophysics? Or are astrophysicists the only physicists who want to blog for the […]
Neuroscience blog of note
Check it out, Wiring the Brain.
Applied Statistics over at ScienceBlogs
Just a reminder, Andrew Gelman is now blogging at ScienceBlogs under “Applied Statistics”.