%0 Generic %1 zivkovic2006 %A Zivkovic, Bora %D 2006 %J Science and Politics %K imported %T Publishing hypotheses and data on a blog-is it going to happen on science blogs? %U http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2006/04/publishing-hypotheses-and-data-on-blog.html %X What is a science blog? I guess there are as many definitions as there are science blogs, but in general, I see science blogs defined (by other bloggers) in two ways: by topic-matter and by authority of the author. Thus, a science blogs is one that always, often, or at least sometimes covers science as a topic. Or, a science blog is one written by a person with some expertise in science, e.g., a practicing scientist, a student, or perhaps a science journalist. You can sample the diversity of science blogs if you check out these linkfests: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, so you can make up your own mind about the definition. So, I've been reading science blogs for quite a while now. How do they differ from other blogs? What, if anything is missing? Are there any trends that may predict the future of science blogging? I was going to make a lot of links to a lot of blogs to provide the examples, but this post will never get finished if I tried to do that. Instead, I'll link to a few blogs where particularly relevant, provide some examples from my own blogging because it is easy for me to find around here, and for the rest, following the links in the linkfests just above will have to do. So, what kinds of posts are found on science blogs? Let's see, very roughly in increased degrees of "professionalism", or "expertise":

@misc{zivkovic2006, abstract = {What is a science blog? I guess there are as many definitions as there are science blogs, but in general, I see science blogs defined (by other bloggers) in two ways: by topic-matter and by authority of the author. Thus, a science blogs is one that always, often, or at least sometimes covers science as a topic. Or, a science blog is one written by a person with some expertise in science, e.g., a practicing scientist, a student, or perhaps a science journalist. You can sample the diversity of science blogs if you check out these linkfests: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, so you can make up your own mind about the definition. So, I've been reading science blogs for quite a while now. How do they differ from other blogs? What, if anything is missing? Are there any trends that may predict the future of science blogging? I was going to make a lot of links to a lot of blogs to provide the examples, but this post will never get finished if I tried to do that. Instead, I'll link to a few blogs where particularly relevant, provide some examples from my own blogging because it is easy for me to find around here, and for the rest, following the links in the linkfests just above will have to do. So, what kinds of posts are found on science blogs? Let's see, very roughly in increased degrees of "professionalism", or "expertise":}, added-at = {2007-10-24T19:43:24.000+0200}, author = {Zivkovic, Bora}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d5299edc5efe8357f2dfa455130814a3/sciencebloglibrarian}, interhash = {813b40cbc550c6be7eb41371e1324d37}, intrahash = {d5299edc5efe8357f2dfa455130814a3}, journal = {Science and Politics}, keywords = {imported}, month = {April}, timestamp = {2007-10-24T19:43:24.000+0200}, title = {Publishing hypotheses and data on a blog-is it going to happen on science blogs?}, url = {http://sciencepolitics.blogspot.com/2006/04/publishing-hypotheses-and-data-on-blog.html}, year = 2006 }