Collective Blogging - Nobel Prize announcements
Anna Kushnir
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:12 UTC
It’s been a long while since our last synchroblogging effort on NN. Methinks it’s time to resurrect the budding tradition. Would there be any interest in focusing the next round of synchronized posts on the upcoming Nobel Prize announcements? The prize in physiology and medicine will be announced on Monday, October 6, physics follows on Oct 7, chemistry on Oct 8, the peace prize on the 10th, and economics on the 13th.
I have a few ideas about potential post topics, though naturally we can deviate from them at will.
1. A scientist, either living or dead, who you think deserves the award,
2. Predictions of winners,
3. Descriptions of how the work of Nobel prize winners affected your own work, any influence the person had on you, so on and so forth.
We can hold the synchro/collective blogging fest the Friday prior to the first Nobel announcement, Oct 3.
Any takers? Any ideas more innovative than my own would be greatly appreciated.
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Anna, should we post our blog entries on October 3rd? Or should we have a Nobel week from October 6-13? I think that we should have the opportunity to also comment on the actual winners. My idea for a blog entry would work either way.
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That’s a good idea, Martin, as the prizes aren’t all announced on the same day. Chemistry is last, from my memory.
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Good idea, Martin. I wasn’t sure what date would be best, especially if people wanted to blog about their Nobel predictions. I like the sound of Nobel week, however. I can do a nice little round-up of all the Nobel-related posts at the end of the week.
Economics is last this year (or every year?), which is already getting a lot of jokes. Not the best year ever to win a prize for economics, sadly.
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Anna, I’m looking forward to this – we haven’t done a synchroblogging effort in quiet some time.
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A week is also easier for me, as I’m coming back from a trip on the 1st of October and then need all of the 2nd and 3rd to catch up on everything else before can sit down and write a blog post. (Blogging is not at the top of my list. It’s somewhere in the middle, right above “sleep”.)
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Pardon my previous comment. I forgot to insert all the links. Let’s try it again.
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Ok, let’s do a full Nobel week then!
I have a neat idea to propose, courtesy of Simon Frantz who runs the Nobelprize.org site. The Nobel Organization runs a Q&A each Prize Announcement in which people can submit questions to head of each Prize-Awarding Committee, and to newly awarded Nobel Laureates. Perhaps I can start another thread in this forum in which we will collect such questions, and then vote on which to submit to the committee after the award announcements are made. What do you all (y’all) think?
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This is a great idea.
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I suggest a common tag – “Nobel prize”.
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Agreed. Let’s use “Nobel Prize” as the tag for all Nobel-related posts next week!
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I like the idea. I covered that on my Italian blog as well, linking to resources that I learned about via the NN.
Is synchroblogging going to be here on the NN or here on the FriendFeed room? Both?
Medicine and Phisiology has been announced! It’s all about Viral work.
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