{"id":207,"date":"2008-09-24T04:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T04:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/24\/on_weblogs\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T04:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T04:50:48","slug":"on_weblogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/24\/on_weblogs\/","title":{"rendered":"On weblogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things have cropped up over the past couple of days, related (indirectly) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/maxine\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/blogging-challenge-to-senior-scientists-18-september-2008\">grand<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/wp\/nascent\/2008\/09\/science_blogging_challenge.html\">challenge<\/a> from the last panel &#8220;discussion&#8221;:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/rpg\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/on-science-blogging-2008\u2014part-3 at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/wp\/nascent\/2008\/09\/science_blogging_2008_london.html\">SciBlog &#8217;08<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nGrrlscientist has a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/grrlscientist\/2008\/09\/science_blogging_planting_the.php\">long and thoughtful<\/a> essay, also published at <em>Research Fortnight<\/em> (although I can&#8217;t <del>be arsed trying to<\/del> find a link for the actual piece), about the benefits of and resistance to science weblogs.  The climate scientist and founding member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/\">RealClimate<\/a>, Gavin Schmidt, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/ngeo170\">argues<\/a> in <em>Nature Geoscience<\/em>  that weblogs are a good way of providing context that does not make it into mainstream media, or even the peer-reviewed literature. <a href=\"http:\/\/metamolecular.com\/\">Rich Apodaca<\/a> exults that his <a href=\"http:\/\/depth-first.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/23\/what-good-is-a-scientific-blog\">weblog<\/a> is the first Google hit for &#8216;chemical spreadsheet&#8217;, making the point that the oxygen of online publicity can be (or might come to be) just as important for scientists as for anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s probably enough links for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things have cropped up over the past couple of days, related (indirectly) to the grand challenge from the last panel &#8220;discussion&#8221;:http:\/\/network.nature.com\/people\/rpg\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/on-science-blogging-2008\u2014part-3 at SciBlog &#8217;08. Grrlscientist has a long and thoughtful essay, also published at Research Fortnight (although I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/09\/24\/on_weblogs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}