Information Science
March 10, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
New science journalism ecosystem: new inter-species interactions, new niches Almost a year ago, Nature published a set of opinion articles, including Science journalism: Toppling the priesthood by Toby Murcott. I did not react at the time, but JR Minkel and Jessica Palmer did and got some interesting responses in...
The Questionable Authority
Cities, Solipsism, Scientism, and Spirituality While reading Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography, I came across something I hadn't heard of before - the "city hermits" that lived in medieval London. The concept struck me as odd - hermits (at least the non-crab variety) were...
Christina's LIS Rant
From the archives: A Structural Exploration of the Science Blogosphere: Director's Cut This was originally posted 1/9/2009 on my old blog. Due to popular demand (well 3 requests :) ), this is a commentary and additional information for my conference paper and presentation: Pikas, C. K. (2008). Detecting Communities in Science Blogs....
March 9, 2010
Christina's LIS Rant
My qualitative study of science blogging Sometimes you have to just let go and release something to the wild. I have mentioned on a few occasions a qualitative study I did prior to the network study. To be honest, I think I actually did it in...
DrugMonkey
When scientist audience is from another field it is still "outreach" Just as I am in the "outreach" target demographic for the bone jockeys, my readers are certainly in the target demographic for my blogging.
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Christine Ottery Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this...
A Blog Around The Clock
The Online News Association meeting - vote for my panel The Online News Association organizes a meeting every year (and gives Online Journalism Awards there). The next one will be in October 28-30, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The program is formed by the online news community submitting proposals, then everyone...
March 8, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
Science blogs and public engagement with science As you may know, I love the Journal of Science Communication. It publishes some very interesting and useful scholarly articles on a wide array of issues pertaining to the communication, education and publishing of science. I wish more science bloggers...
March 7, 2010
Gene Expression
On content redundancy Felix Salmon, Link-phobic bloggers at the NYT and WSJ: The problem, here, is that the bloggers at places like the NYT and the WSJ are print reporters, and aren't really bloggers at heart. I discovered this a couple of weeks...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - Trust and Critical Thinking, Part 1 Saturday, January 16 at 4:40 - 5:45pm C. Trust and Critical Thinking - Stephanie Zvan, PZ Myers, Desiree Schell, Greg Laden, Kirsten Sanford Description: Lay audiences often lack the resources (access to studies, background knowledge of fields and methods)...
March 6, 2010
Christina's LIS Rant
Sometimes it’s hard to remember that some very smart people just don’t know how the web and browsers work Back when I was working at the public library, I used to do the "introduction to the internet" classes. These were typically at 9 - before the library opened- and so attracted stay at home moms and retirees. Attendees usually...
March 5, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 session videos - Science and Entertainment Part 6 Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging Saturday, January 16 at 2 - 3:05pm D. Science and Entertainment: Beyond Blogging - Tamara Krinsky and Jennifer Ouellette Description: Over the past several years, the Internet has tangibly changed the way that movies...
March 4, 2010
Confessions of a Science Librarian
From the Archives: If you don't have a blog you don't have a resume (Part I) I'm away for a couple of days, so I thought I'd fill in a bit with an oldy-buy-goody from February 4, 2009. It ended up being the first of three parts, with the other two being here and here. As...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Andrew Farke Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this...
March 3, 2010
The Primate Diaries
Nature Network Has A Brand New Look Think you know Nature Network? Wait till you see what they're up to now. The members of my former parish have now unveiled their long awaited MT4 platform and you can re-experience all of their wonderful science blogginess updated afresh...
A Blog Around The Clock
Why it is important for media articles to link to scientific papers You may be aware that, as of recently, one of my tasks at work is to monitor media coverage of PLoS ONE articles. This is necessary for our own archives and monthly/annual reports, but also so I could highlight some...
March 2, 2010
A Blog Around The Clock
New user functionality at PLoS - referenced PDFs via Pubget Often when a scientific paper gets cited, one wants to see how exactly it was cited. Thus one needs to download the citing article. There are numerous ways to do so, but starting today, you can get this done with...
bioephemera
Jess3's State of the Internet; the Pew's state of the news Jesse ("Jess3") Thomas's brand-new clip, like a slimmed-down, retro-styled, updated cousin of that ubiquitous "Right here, right now" video, is the perfect appetizer to complement the Pew's brand-new report on participatory news. Enjoy....
DrugMonkey
Ask DrugMonkey: Will you comment for attribution? "we owe it to our readers"
The Book of Trogool
Cognitive dissonance One of the latest institutional open-access policies comes from Harvard Business School (hat tip to Stuart Shieber). This is the same school that plays horrendous anti-library, anti-education games with their flagship Harvard Business Review. My head hurts....
Confessions of a Science Librarian
Are Computing journals too slow? Continuing the ongoing discussion about the publication habits of computing researchers that I've recently blogged about:Time for computer science to grow up? ACM responds to the blogosphere The Association for Computing Machinery on Open Access. Conferences vs. journals in computing...
Neurotopia
Open Lab 2009 Reviews! The first Open Lab 2009 review is up over at Sciblogs! Sci was amused that the reviewer notes that editor (editress? editrix?) is listed by her pseud, but agrees that it's all part of the blog experience. :) The reviewer,...
March 1, 2010
The Book of Trogool
Grey literature considered harmful? So the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is mired in a rapidly heating controversy over a report that apparently let some dubious information slip through the cracks. Here's the money quote: The discovery of the glaciers mistake has...
A Blog Around The Clock
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with Andrea Novicki Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this...
A Blog Around The Clock
How to organize an Interactive Conference On Friday, I was on Skeptically Speaking radio show together with Reed Esau (who organized the Skepticamp) talking about ScienceOnline2010, what it takes to organize it, the Unconference format and why it is good, etc. You can now listen to...
