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interested groups—science bloggers, working scientists who knew very little about blogs, professional science journalists, and science educators.Their goal was to teach and inform each other about what they want from the internet, their expectations of each other, their strengths and expertise, and how they can work together to reach those goals. The conference generated many
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novel ideas, and its success will be built on by a second one to be held early next year. Zivkovic says about his newly published book of blogs: “The anthology was designed to complement the science blogging conference, aiming to showcase the quality and diversity of science blogging.” The two media are different—parchment and pixels—so the articles included in the anthology are out of their original context: they are standalone articles, whereas blogging is realtime communication. The book has been well-received, and nominations for the second edition are currently being accepted. The hope is that more nonbloggers will read it and see that blogs are not just personal diaries, but can serve to communicate high-quality and often fun reports.
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Weblog 4: The first science blogging conference and anthology Bora Zivkovic, a Serbian-born PhD student from North Carolina University, organized the first science blogging conference, held this year. He also writes his own blog, and has compiled and edited the first science blog anthology. The blogging conference was born out of the desire of a group of science bloggers “to meet offline and have a beer!” says Zivkovic. It gathered four
The conference was a big success Weblog 5: Where to blog, how to blog, why to blog. “Go slowly,” advises Zivkovic. “Start reading first.” A logical starting place is Seed Magazine’s scienceblogs.com which now has 61 blogs, including some of the best to be found. You can expand your reading list further by following the links and blog-rolls outside the Seed Science Blogging universe. “Next, start commenting. Observe the rules of
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etiquette. Check the standard of discourse.Then, if you feel that you have a voice and something original to say, start a blog of your own and tell others about it!” www.scienceblogs.com/clock/ Mico Tatalovic is a PhD student in the Department of Zoology
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