Icerocket blog search Science Blogs: definition & history I have been asked recently to write an article, somewhat along the lines of this one but longer, and with a somewhat different angle, asking a little bit different questions: What makes a science blog? Who were the first science bloggers and how long ago? How many science blogs are there? How does one differentiate between science blogs and pseudo-science, non-science and nonsense blogs? The goal of the article is to try to delineate what is and what isn’t a science blog, what are the overlaps between the Venn diagram of science blogging and some other circles, and what out of all that material should be archived and preserved forever under the heading of “Science Blogging”. We’ve had these kinds of discussions for years now… but I’ll give it my best shot. Defining a science blog Defining a science blog – heck, just defining a blog – is difficult. What is considered a science blog varies, and has changed over the years. Finally, blogging is not just about text. What is a blog carnival?
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Dans les testicules de Darwin MacSparky Humeurs Le parcours du professeur connecté Que d'outils numériques mis à notre disposition en ligne pour simplifier notre métier d'enseignant : le réseau local de l'établissement, le site de l'établissement, l'espace numérique de travail, etc. Sauf qu'au bout d'un certain temps, on commence à s'y perdre quelque peu, comme en atteste cette brève vidéo... Lire la suite : À urler
July 2005 My talk with Tim Siftar (librarian at Drexel's Hagerty Library) last week got me thinking that I missed the target a bit with my blog assignment for my CHEM 242 Organic Chemistry class. I wanted to make sure that they used "credible" references so I asked them to use CiteULike, which strongly encourages them to use journal references by having specific fields to fill in like Journal Name, Year, Volume, Page, Authors, etc. Certainly there is a tremendous improvement in the references used by students over the last term. In chemistry, that means that every statement expressed as a fact has a reference. With these criteria, I think that (if done with care) blog posts of scientific research are potentially easier to authenticate than a paper in a printed journal because every statement can be supported by a hyperlink that can be immediately verified. When the supporting information is not immediately available, peer review may not work the way many assume it does.