Comments on: Famous for fifteen people

By: Ce que le blog apporte à la science | traffic-internet.net

Ce que le blog apporte à la science | traffic-internet.net — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:38:35 +0000

[...] construire sa niche et un lectorat qui peut les reconnaître comme une référence, même à l’échelle d’une quinzaine de personnes. Cette web presence passait autrefois par un site personnel, lequel semble détrôné [...]

By: ob

ob — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:09:16 +0000

I do very much hesitate to post a comment now, because up till now there are exactly 15 … must be a kind of magic number …

Nevertheless I wish to express my pleasure to met you in person (at least we’re sitting on the same table ) – maybe next time we could even speak together!

By: draust

draust — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:05:21 +0000

Like I said the other day, Duncan, let me know when a "North West Science Bloggers Circle" actually starts up. Then we can have a Science Blogging "Local hub" meeting without all needing to trek down to London... plus we can trade anti-Chelsea and anti-Arsenal insults (though Liverpool-Manchester feuding might have to be put on hold). Haven't yet tried asking any of my local Professors if they are ready to blog. Though from having a nose around on Nature Networks I see that there is already at least one blogging Professor somewhere near where you are. I wasn't quite clear at the SciBlog gig whether the point of "senior scientists blogging" was that it should be "not just the young" or that it should be "the important and successful". I suspect there are a decent number of blogging scientists over 40 - it's just that they probably aren't the ones who make Professor. The ones who do make Professor are, in my experience, often much too busy multi-tasking and zooming about being important to blog. I think the only approach likely to persuade any of them will be to say:

"You know how much time you spend on your email? Well, if you take that and put in on a blog instead..."

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:38:57 +0000

Hello Brain Duck, yes, I meant it would have been nice to meet you in person. Maybe next time? Sorry for the blog mis-attribution, corrected it now, I mis-read the list of attendees and their blogs. Understanding uncertainty is on the line beneath you, speaking of which its author, Hauke Riesch looks like an interesting person to meet too.

By: brainduck

brainduck — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:18:59 +0000

‘Brain Duck who is trying to understand uncertainty’

V kind, but actually I write http://brainduck.wordpress.com/ , which started as an attempt for me to stop boring people at parties with all the cool stuff I was learning as a psychology undergrad, & has turned out to be mostly about looking at the evidence around the odder bits of Educational Psychology – Ben mentioned my tangles with ‘Dore’ ‘dyslexia miracle cure’ in the keynote.

I’m not sure whether that means you’d like to meet me or the author of Understanding Uncertainty, but I tend to hang around on ‘Bad Science’ forums.

Thanks!

By: maxine

maxine — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:06:24 +0000

No comment on Henry Gee’s hair – or even feet

By: Alethea

Alethea — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:32:35 +0000

Thanks for the shoutout, too, Duncan. But I must quibble with the above opinions and say that BrainDuck’s hair (feathers) beats everyone else’s. You’re right on with your approach to the post, about meeting the ones you knew – physically, online, and not meeting some of the others, yet being in the same room with similar experiences. It was lots of fun.

Also, the original “15 people” quote may well come from an artist/writer who works with Wired, called Momus. As I’m not sure about html format I’ll just paste the link to the post here: http://imomus.com/index499.html and to Nick Currie’s persona here: http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/commentary/imomus/2007/05/imomus_0508

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:46:12 +0000

I am just jealous of all ye folks and of Duncan’s writing skills. Some of you Euro’s should make it to Science Online09 in RTP in January.

as for Linked Data, what Andrew said, and it’s very good. I quite like the idea of focusing on the data, and the web and a little less on the vocabularies.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:20:23 +0000

Hi Duncan – It was lovely to meet you as well! One slight correction – I am not responsible for sanity checking submissions to Precedings, but for managing the development of the site. So if you have feature requests, reports of problems, etc, I’m your contact!

By: Graham Steel

Graham Steel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:07:47 +0000

Greetings Clan Duncan from Clan Hamilton.

My Uncle Ian (and yes, we are actually related – my Father’s side) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone is, er, rather Scottish.

Excellent post about sciblog and we must do a beer or two next time we meet.