Why do we blog and other important questions
Martin Fenner
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 23:32 UTC
I was wondering whether readers of Nature Network blogs would be interested to learn more about us. We could answer a few questions about our blog and ourselves, e.g. the questions below:
1. What is your blog about?
2. What will you never write about?
3. Have you ever considered leaving science?
4. What would you do instead?
5. What do you think will science blogging be like in 5 years?
6. What is the most extraordinary thing that happened to you because of blogging?
7. Did you write a blog post or comment you later regretted?
8. When did you first learn about science blogging?
9. What do your colleagues at work say about your blogging?
Does this sound like a good idea? Any other interesting questions?
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I like the idea!
The answer to 7. is probably yes for most people, certainly for me.
I am not blogging myself so I should leave the answers to others, but perhaps I like to add the questions whether you think in the long-term blogs will morph into something even more interactive between bloggers and readers, towards concepts such as twitter…
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Hey Martin, interesting idea. What do you think this should look like?
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Great idea – we should set a week for it, so we can synchonize.
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here is one:
how the heck do you have time to blog and do research at the same time?
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Bob, this is indeed a good synchroblogging topic. My next blog post will be #100, so I thought about something like this. Richard just passed #200 and both Anna and Victor are also very close to #100. Should we make the next week synchroblogging week for everybody that wants to answer these questions?
Jörg, maybe we can rephrase question #5 to include your thoughts on Twitter.
Pamela, I like your question – and I have no good answer to it.
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@Pamela—ha ha! Good one.
@Martin—Bloody hell. Is it really? I bet that Gee chap is on, like, eight thousand though.
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I like and I dislike synchroblogging. It seems like that much assigned homework (though it’s obviously not mandatory). Then again, you don’t have to think of a topic, which can be a relief.
How can you judge if NN blog readers are interested in learning more about us?
I’m waiting for Bora to get on and update us on how many posts he has written (offsite, though)…
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I’d be happy to join in on my personal blog, which isn’t about science – does it have to be limited to Nature Network and/or blogs about science?
Pamela – good question. I have an answer (boring). If I’m allowed to join in the sychcroblog (if there is a syncrhoblog – and what day is it if there is one?) I’ll answer there. Otherwise, if I am off-limits, I’ll post a reply here after it is all over.
(BTW, I have a “blog” on NN, but it is exclusively an archive of a column I write, but I suppose I could break its rules and post on this? Not sure, will the Blogging Gods come down and smite me if I do that?)
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Maybe we can decide here whether answering a few standard questions in a blog post is a good idea at all? If the answer is yes, then it’s up to the individual blogger if and when she/he wants to answer. And I don’t see why this should be limited to Nature Network blogs.
How can you judge if NN blog readers are interested in learning more about us?
I can only say that I would be interested in the answers from other NN bloggers.
Any other questions you would want to ask?
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Yes!! Inspired by Stephen’s recent post , I would like to add:
10. Extra credit: are you able to write an entry to your blog that takes the form of a poem about your research?
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