National Geographic, which nows runs Scienceblogs.com, has put the hammer down on anonymous blogs.Really, that whole thing was always a little sketchy. Supposedly the rationale was that these people were going to be edgy insiders revealing things too explosive for mainstream media and maybe damaging to their careers but it mostly ended up being a way to rant about politics without...
read moreFive years into the Science 2.0 experiment I can tell you down to the eyeball how many people are involved in the communication pillar of it - but in the collaboration realm, it's not so easy.Science 2.0 fave Heather A. Piwowar from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Pitt recently gave it a shot, and the answer was...it's unknown.read...
read moreOver time, a variety of people have asked me where they should get the word out that they are writing on Science 2.0 and I am happy to tell them - but they are surprised by the answer. Social media darlings like Twitter and Facebook will accomplish very little beyond being another place to follow comments. Old technology is what matters in getting eyeballs to read your work, and that...
read moreYou may not know this, but Twitter is actually not that great. The website itself is clunky. Add-ons are what made it successful. Sometimes Twitter has acquired them, like with TweetDeck, and sometimes they have created their own once the market has shown them to be popular.The photo sharing website TwitPic started in 2008 as a way to share photos easily on Twitter. Life was...
read moreGreater virtual realism is always shown in television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as people who act out an alternate life as a farmer or solve mysteries in the 1800s, and that may happen, but long before that any technology like that will be used by young people to shoot each other.read...
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You remember Myspace, right? It came after Friendster but was smart enough to take a check from Rupert Murdoch instead of withering away to obscurity and then being sold for peanuts. If you’re a teenage girl in love with customizing as many colors and fonts as possible, you may even have a Myspace account. Facebook, of course, killed Myspace and News Corp.’s $500 million purchase...
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