{"id":337,"date":"2008-09-09T21:52:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T21:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2008\/09\/09\/i_hate_blogs_bloggers_and_blogging\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T21:52:56","slug":"i_hate_blogs_bloggers_and_blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2008\/09\/09\/i_hate_blogs_bloggers_and_blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate blogs, bloggers and blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attending the SciBlog 2008<\/a> conference last week gave me a chance to weigh up my opinion of blogs, bloggers and blogging. And I\u2019ve decided that I hate them all.<\/p>\n

\tNot the concept or the people or the activity, you understand, but the words. They stick in my throat. As I would have said when I was growing up in Northern Ireland, they make me want to boke<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\tI know the etymology: web-log, b-log, blog. It makes perfect sense but it\u2019s such a silly-sounding word that it seems to demean the process. I would be embarrassed to admit that I do it, just because it has such a stupid name.<\/p>\n

\tAnd yet the call went out<\/a> from the conference for more senior people to get blogging and that struck a chord that has been twanging \u2014 a little mutedly perhaps \u2014 at the back of my mind for a few months now. Not that I regard myself as so very senior. Yes, I am a professor and I\u2019m serious about my science; but I\u2019m still just shy of my mid-forties and like to think of myself as a young<\/em> man. However, the truth of the matter is beginning to weigh on me; I now have to lift my eye-glasses to read the date on my watch, so I guess I have to face facts.<\/p>\n

\tSo here goes. I won\u2019t promise to post regularly; that way I will avoid the repetition of future apologies for failing to write. I won\u2019t promise to be unembarrassed to admit that I am a blogger. I won\u2019t promise to have anything terribly insightful to say.<\/p>\n

\tBut I will share my experiences of science \u2014 such as they are and as frankly as I can \u2014 and look forward to engaging with the community on Nature Network. Indeed, I have already enjoyed that burgeoning sense of community these past few months while lurking in the background, only stepping forward now and then to comment. One of the real joys of the conference, as Dr Rohn<\/a> and Dr Kushnir<\/a> (among others) have remarked, was finally meeting in the flesh some of those people (OK, OK\u2026 bloggers) whom I\u2019d only come to know from their online persona.<\/p>\n

\tAnd you never know, perhaps one day I\u2019ll get comfortable with the idea of\u2026 blogging. But even then, I\u2019ll still loathe the phrase \u2018Web 2.0\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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