Tracking blog reactions
Anna Kushnir
Thursday, 03 July 2008 18:53 UTC
The news of Science Blogging 2008: London is spreading far and wide through the blogosphere.
The Beagle Project Blog, with a poetic ode to the Science Blogging Conference.
Mo at Neurophilosophy, twice!
O’Reilly
BlogHer
Our own Richard Grant, on his non-NN blog, Life of a lab rat . A summary of the session he will help lead is here, and a wrap-up of the conference proceedings can be found here.
Nature’s Nascent
Graham Steel’s McBlawg
One of the conference speakers, GrrlScientist, has a series of posts on her blog, Living the Scientific Life
John Dupuis at Confessions of a Science Librarian
Peter Murray-Rust at petermr’s blog
Joe Fitzsimons at Quantized Thoughts
Tim Dickinson at The Plummet Onions, and again
Plus Magazine
Katherine Haxton at Endless Possibilities and again
Consultation blog on the DIUS Science and Society consultation site
Marc West at The Mr Science Show – Crawl of London Science Pubs
David Bradley on Sciencebase
AJC on Science of the Invisible
Mike Seyfang on Learning with the Fang
Lisa Bailey on Bridge8
Duncan Hull on O’Really?
Coracle on Science and Progress, and again.
Oliver Obst on MedInfo
Angela Saini, on the awesomely named Nothing shocks me, I’m a scientist
Jacob Aron on Just a Theory
Colin Sanders on Colin’s Beauty Pages
Andy Lewis on Quackometer
Julia Heathcote on The Ethical Palaeontologist
Attila Csordas on Pimm – Partial immortalization
Cameron Neylon on Science in the Open
I was lost, but now I live here
Laika’s MedLibBlog
Mike Dunford on The Questionable Authority and again
KH (post doc ergo propter doc) on Lecturer Notes
Clare Dudman’s four part series on Keeper of the Snails
Egon Willighagen on chem-bla-ics
Heather Etchevers on Humans in Science and again. For Heather’s presentation slides of her conference session, Communicating Primary Research Publicly, please click here.
Marco Boscolo on formicablog, and again
Conference summary on Nascent
The University of Sydney covered Richard Grant’s participation in the conference on their News page
Editorial in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Times Higher Education write-up of science blogging and the conference, By the blog: academics tread carefully
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Science Blogging 2008 room in FriedFeed
Conference-related photos on Flickr
All content on NN tagged with ‘sciblog’
Thanks for contributing to this list of the blogosphere’s reaction to the conference! Keep the links coming.
Updated 23 October 2008 14:13 UTC
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I would not waste time on Technorati. It was a dominant player a while back, but in my experience it is plagued by technical issues (eg it is “down” a lot; I often find things missing that I know should be there. The site is also full of distracting ads. From the stats I have seen (eg on John Battelle’s blog), many more people are now using Google blog search than Technorati.
I find Google blog search pretty good and have long since given up using Technorati (apart from a little splurge recently when Nature Network provided a Technorati link, but I was even less impressed then than I had been when I gave up Technoarti a year or so before that).
Services like Friend Feed and Yahoo Pipes seem excellent to me, but my (probably imperfect) understanding is that they work by someone actually setting up a Pipe or Room for that particular keyword, which other users subscribe to. This is different from a blogger tagging/keywording a post for general search engines to pick up.
Heather, I think Google Scholar is indeed less accurate than Scopus, from the studies I have read. It is possible that GS covers a broader section of the literature (ie the “grey” literature) than Scopus, though. I imagine Google are working on refining GS – hope so. The h index is definitely a flawed measure (lots about that over in the citation in science forum and plenty of other places). Scientists want a performance measure they can apply to themselves as individuals, but from all I’ve seen the h index is not it.
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By the way, Anna, you don’t seem to have captured Frank Norman’s NN blog post about the meeting, or Clare’s four posts at Keeper of the Snails. They are all in the Friend Feed sci blogging room if you want to add them to your list here.
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And Clare’s posts in particular are really delightful :-)
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@Maxine technorati is apparently rebuilding itself, I wouldn’t hold your breath…but you never know.
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Thanks, Maxine. Ridiculous that I left off Clare’s posts, considering I read and loved them. Strange oversight on my part. I do keep a close eye on the FriendFeed group. Some lovely discussions going on there!
Am not listing posts on NN as they are covered with the ‘sciblog’ tag and are listed as “content on NN” at the bottom of the post.
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How utterly cool! Thanks, Richard. You’re quickly approaching celebrity-dom!
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Hope so… they might encourage me to attend the NC conference :)
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The editorial in the new Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology is a short report of the blogging conference#
(Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 9, 737; October 2008)
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