Just an update to dust of my website from serious blogging-neglect. Check out this new science blogging aggregator: ScienceSeeker.org. From their website: There are thousands of science blogs around the world, written by active scientists, journalists, professors, students, and interested …
You’re not a blogger if you don’t participate in Blog Carnival, so it seems. Blog carnival are a great way of finding new blogs, interesting posts, and creative bloggers all within a single topic of interest. The host of the carnival gathers a collection of posts, writes an editorial, and obviously links to the posts.
A vast number of carnivals already exist. Fascinating ones and content are found on The Giant’s Shoulders, on classic science papers, Carnival of the Mathematics (although I understand nearly half of it), Four Stone Hearth, on anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word, Cabinet of Curiosities, and The Skeptics Circle.
A longer list is found on Coturnix’s blog
Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find a blogging carnival on sociology or social sciences in general. Therefor, I now introduce the Curving Normality Blogging Carnival on Quantitative Social Sciences.
Basically, if you write something on your blog, it’s yours. Many countries’ legislature recognises this, and protects your copyright. So, are you safe now? Well, not exactly. I found two excellent tools to help you protect your blog articles’ copyright.
Today, Researchblogging.org has been thoroughly updated; a good moment to reflect some on the initiative of researchblogging.org itself, my participation in it, and on the phenomenon of blogging on peer reviewed research itself.
Researchblogging.org is a non-profit initiative, and provides in a web-based gathering of posts from weblogs on science. Not all posts are gathered (‘aggregated’) though, only the ones that explicitly address research that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal. In that, it distinguishes clearly from similar (collections of) scientists’ blogs, for everything else but the research itself is left out. This is achieved by having bloggers to administer their posts on the researchblogging.org website manually, after which some PHP-code is provided. This code is added to the blog-post, resulting in a bibliographic reference to the article that is discussed, as well as the aggregation of the article to the researchblogging database.
For me, this results in a very interesting collection of blog-posts, that are nicely categorised and stored in a searchable database accessible though the web. And this is where the new version of researchblogging.org becomes really interesting, because next to a visual update, new features have been added. Bloggers now can categorise their posts manually, making them easier to find by prospective readers.
“Excuse me, are you the author of Curving Normality? I am quite a regular reader of your blog.” I can’t think of a nicer place than the useR! conference to find my single reader. Or, at least, one of the …
Recently I wrote about buying an iPhone and introduced to be writing about iPhone applications suitable for the academic life. Well, here it is: I found the WordPress application for iPhone highly suitable for mobile and academic blogging (on WordPress). …
I must admit that I repeatedly feel flattered by the number of page-views on my blog as shown by the WordPress statistics plugin. However, despite the nice graphical representation, they are a little too flattering for the humble number of …
