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To blog or not to blog (6 replies)

Graham Steel — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:28:29 -0000

Here is an interesting Manuscript just published in the Journal of Science Communication:-

To blog or not to blog, not a real choice there…

NN features several times so I thought I would post a link to the Manuscript here.

Science Blogging 2008 (0 replies)

Maxine Clarke — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:58:58 -0000

Just checking that everyone in this group is aware of Science Blogging 2008, a conference being organised by Nature Network, on 30 August in London, UK. See this Nature Network group to sign up and for further details.

Biotecher on Twitter (0 replies)

Maxine Clarke — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:01:36 -0000

I heard from Attila Csordas today that he’s set up Biotecher on Twitter. Biotecher is an aggregate of biotech, biology, medicine and bioinformatics twitters to track the biotwitter community (it has an RSS feed). Here are the people so far ‘on’ Biotecher.

Do you write more for friends, colleagues or for the general audience? (0 replies)

Hank Campbell — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:38:13 -0000

In my various (albeit admittedly limited) internet wanderings among the science blogosphere I see a cross-section of writers with a variety of approaches and audience sizes. There are large sites like ours or Nature or LiveScience or Scienceblogs and then smaller ones like Cosmicvariance or Realclimate right down to successful independent ones like badastronomy.

But most people write for a pretty limited audience.

Everyone here probably started writing for a limited audience also. So what motivated you to start and keep at it? Was it to correspond for friends, more technical in nature or were you interesting in writing science for the public?

If you didn’t have an audience of hundreds of thousands per month and up, would you still do it?

The new CAP Journal is out (0 replies)

Hank Campbell — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:48:01 -0000

If you haven’t yet read the new publication “Communicating Astronomy with the Public” – give it a try. Any time other people do this stuff for free I want to give them the endorsement (they are funded by ESO but they’re not employees of a magazine or media company, I mean).

Yes, I have an article in there but I would recommend them anyway.

What have you been reading lately? (1 reply)

Noah Gray — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:53:38 -0000

I’m always on the look-out for good sources of science writing and blogging. I’d love to hear what the members of this group have been reading.

For me, I have found myself checking Gene Expression a lot lately; good writing, a lot of interesting topics, and just enough deviation from science (at times) to keep you reading without falling victim to “brain fatigue”.

Darwin Day 2008 (5 replies)

Hank Campbell — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:06:38 -0000

If anyone is writing special content for Darwin Day, we are putting up a page with links to everyone we can find. Darwin Day 2008

We’re not dressing up in Darwin costumes or anything like that, though you can get for the bicentennial we will.

Maybe I’ll get a beagle before then too.