Time is running out to submit your favorite blogs for the chance to be included in The Open Laboratory 2008, the annual anthology of the world’s best blogs about science. As this year’s Editor, I’d like to remind everyone that science blogs come in many shapes and forms, and the judges and I will be looking for a balance of posts that describe scientific advances in an engaging, creative way as well as those that reveal the more human and meta side of practicing scientific research.
The submissions have been being coming in all year, but with a deadline of 1 December fast approaching, it’s time to make your move. Any post after 20 December 2007 is eligible, and you can nominate your own posts as well as others’. More than one is fine – though have pity on the poor judges, who will have to plow through all of this stuff over the festive period! Don’t worry about duplicates, as we can handle this. We also encourage the submission of original poems and cartoons, and as always, we’d love to see new bloggers as well as more established ones represented.
Keep in mind that, as the posts will appear in print, a piece that has lots of links, copyrighted pictures, movies and the like may not translate well. Any images will be in greyscale and should be available as much higher resolution than what you probably put on the web (>200 dpi at the size it will be printed).
You can see all the entries so far at the bottom of Bora’s update.
As you were!
Is it terribly sad to nominate one’s own post?
No. Most submissions are by authors. Nobody knows your archives as well as you do.
Any chance we can find out who the judges are?
OK, done! One silly entry and one slightly less silly entry.
I do hope you’ll have some Digital Cuttlefish poetry again this year! In fact I might head over there at the weekend and pick out my favourites for submission.
Check what’s in so far
as there are already several entries by Digital Cuttlefish.
Jennifer will announce the judges when she is ready.
“No. Most submissions are by authors. Nobody knows your archives as well as you do.”
Spoken by a man who should know! Ahem.
I’m just assembling a list of judges now and will be making invitations over the weekend. If anyone wants to volunteer themselves, please contact me on editorial[at]lablit.com.
Would nominating this post be a little too meta?
The universe might implode: better not chance it.
How tempted am I?
New URL for submissions so far
Only one nomination for Jenny?
Come on people.
Here is the up-to-date list of submissions. Keep them coming!