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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Martin, I think it’s an interesting idea, but I think we could reduce the number of questions, rather than increase it. Many of the people who’s blogs I follow already make it pretty clear there what their blogging’s about, so those questions might not be necessary to ask. Also, reading through all those answers from all those wonderful people might start to get a little time consuming (particularly sonnets and soliloquies from all those literary geniuses out there).
Would it be more sensible to shrink it down to 5 questions that tell us something about NN people that we can’t find out just by reading their posts?
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We could agree to use the same tag, also, for aggregation – eg ‘Martinmeme’.
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OK, I’ll start
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Mike, you could skip a few questions or give them short answers as Henry did with a few of them.
Now that Henry started this, I will try to post something myself. Answer #10 will be the most difficult one for me as I’m not very good in English-language poetry.
And thanks for the tag martinmeme …
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OK, just done mine. It is here.
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This is great fun. Am working on my offering now. Thanks, Martin!
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Great idea! I will post my answers next Tuesday as my 100th post.
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As cartoons, I hope. :-)
I’ll work on mine in the next day or so.
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This is turning into a genuine synchroblogging effort! At last count we have 6 blog entries and more seem to be on the way.
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Mine’s here, Martin – it’s not really a science blog – but it sometimes has science in it!
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