A couple of weeks ago one of the commenters on Ken Perrott’s Open Parachute pointed me at a paper about blogging (& in fact Ken’s already written about it). Shelley Batts & her colleagues have looked at the benefits of ‘institutional’ blogging – to the institution, the bloggers, and those reading the blog. I found it helpful […]
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we have lift-off…
On the new blog format. Which includes…. COMMENTS. So, go ahead – ask questions, make comments, tell me what you think…
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There’s been a discussion on various blogs about just what a science blog should be – why write one, & what should be in it? It followed the suggestion by one writer that if a blog didn’t deal exclusively with peer-reviewed research, then it wasn’t a science blog. Everyone else that I’ve read was pretty […]
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Some clever person out there has written a programme that checks a blog’s reading level – I guess I’ve got it about right… (though I’d be glad to hear what you think about that!) What is Website Reading Level and Why Does it Matter?
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I was idly looking at my page this morning & thought, it might be quite fun to tell you the story behind the picture (yes, that really is me; my husband took the photo in nineteen-mumbley-mumble). That is, how (& why) did I become mother to a bunch of little swans? It's a long story…
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