{"id":174,"date":"2008-11-16T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/11\/16\/memetic_selections\/"},"modified":"2008-11-16T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T16:50:10","slug":"memetic_selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/11\/16\/memetic_selections\/","title":{"rendered":"Memetic Selections"},"content":{"rendered":"

I should be cleaning the flat, so I need an excuse to prevaricate. Oddly enough, I’ve been prevaricating about this meme that Martin suggested<\/a>. So if my flat is to be clean by Tuesday, I now need something else to prevaricate over.
\nSo, without further ado, let’s see what’s below the fold:<\/p>\n


\n1. What is your blog about?<\/strong>
\nStuff. Either my meanderings about aspects of science I’m thinking about, or things that I find interesting or amusing. And, of course, The Beast:
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\nThe Beast at peace, yesterday.<\/em>
\n2. What will you never write about?<\/strong>
\nConfidential stuff, obviously. Only this week I produced a really nice graph that I wanted to rave over, but it was from someone else’s data, and I would have had to explain the details, to show why it was so good. and that would have meant giving away our deepest secrets.
\nI probably won’t write about personal stuff – it’s just not me.
\n3. Have you ever considered leaving science?<\/strong>
\nNot seriously.
\n4. What would you do instead?<\/strong>
\nI’ve no idea! Work as a statistician for a betting company? My brother did a PhD in engineering, left academia and now works for the Passport Office.
\n5. What do you think will science blogging be like in 5 years?<\/strong>
\nWell, assuming there is no technology shift, pretty much like it is now. It might expand so that there are many more scientists doing it and it becomes a way of communicating to other scientists in the same area, but I haven’t seen that happening a great deal (one exception<\/a>, go ahead and link to others).
\n6. What is the most extraordinary thing that happened to you because of blogging?<\/strong>
\nI loaned a power cable to a Nature<\/em> editor.
\nWhich is part of the bigger picture that I ended up going to London just to meet a bunch of people I had only met virtually. And I’ll be off to North Carolina (previously only notable for its crosses) in January for another meeting.
\n7. Did you write a blog post or comment you later regretted?<\/strong>
\nThanks to my proficiency with selective amnesia, no.
\n8. When did you first learn about science blogging?<\/strong>
\nDunno. I guess seriously in 2005, when I followed the Dover trial at Panda’s Thumb<\/a>. I was sucked in from there.
\n9. What do your colleagues at work say about your blogging?<\/strong>
\nMost don’t know about it, some are blogging now (see link above), and a few view it with amusement.
\n10. Extra credit: are you able to write an entry to your blog that takes the form of a poem about your research?<\/strong>
\nNot right now. Brad Carlin and friends<\/a> have done a better job anyway.
\nI can, of course, do it as art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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