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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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 Posted - 07/20/2010 : 08:30:48 [Permalink]
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2010 : 11:35:47 [Permalink]
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PZ has gone on strike.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2010 : 14:28:09 [Permalink]
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Greg Laden is on strike, too, along with Casaubon's Book and Dynamics of Cats.
People who've left since yesterday: Questionable Authority, Superbug (new/old digs), Thus Spake Zuska (new digs) and Living the Scientific Life (new digs).
Respectful Insolence (one of my faves) is still dithering.
So, four bloggers are on strike (including the biggest traffic generator), 18 blogs have left for sure, two were gone before Pepsi, and another dozen or so haven't been active in a long time. So maybe 36 out of 86 blogs are simply inactive or dead. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2010 : 14:42:40 [Permalink]
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I also would like to point out that I think PZ's strike is an effort to save ScienceBlogs by giving bloggers an option to voice their displeasure without having to resort to quitting outright. It will be interesting to see how SB responds.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2010 : 16:54:12 [Permalink]
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If you're a regular reader of any of the blogs that are on strike, and you want to respect the strike, my suggestion would be to look at the last 24 hours on Sb to check for activity and/or an end to the strike. If you were to check (for example) Pharyngula's main page over and over again, those checks will count as page hits (and thus advertiser revenue) for that particular blog, which is what the strikers want to curb. Checking just the last 24 hours gives page hits, too, but they're not specific and they'll be fewer in number (one look at that page can tell you whether there's been activity on any of the four striking blogs, for example).
Or, you can just ignore Sb altogether, doing the most possible damage to their bottom line, and find out here when the strike ends. 
Just sayin'. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2010 : 19:49:05 [Permalink]
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If I were running Sb, here's another way I'd be looking at what's happening:
Blog Name | Status
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2010 World Science Festival Blog | Active
Aardvarchaeology | Active
Adventures in Ethics and Science | Active
Aetiology | Active
Applied Statistics | Left
Bioephemera | Inactive
A Blog Around the Clock | Left
The Book of Trogool | Active
Brazillion Thoughts | Active
Brookhaven Bits & Bytes | Active
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Built on Facts | Active
Casaubon's Book | On Strike
Christina's LIS Rant | Active
Class: M | Active
Collective Imagination | Vanished
Common Knowledge | Active
Confessions of a Science Librarian | Active
Corpus Callosum | Inactive
Culture Dish | Left
Deltoid | Active
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Denialism Blog | Inactive
Developing Intelligence | Active
Discovering Biology in a Digital World | Active
Dispatches from the Culture Wars | Active
Dot Physics | Active
DrugMonkey | Active
Dynamics of Cats | On Strike
Effect Measure | Left
Eruptions | Active
ERV | Active
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Evolution for Everyone | Stagnant
EvolutionBlog | Active
A Few Things Ill Considered | Active
Framing Science | Active
The Frontal Cortex | Active
Genetic Future | Active
Good Math, Bad Math | Left
Greg Laden's Blog | Active
Guilty Planet | Active
Highly Allochthonous | Left
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Laelaps | Left
Life at the SETI Institute | Active
Living the Scientific Life | Left
Mike the Mad Biologist | Active
Myrmecos | Active
Neuron Culture | Left
Neurophilosophy | Active
Neurotopia | 1/3 Left
Obesity Panacea | Left
Observations of a Nerd | Active
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Omni Brain | Stagnant
On Becoming a Domestic ... Goddess | Active
Oscillator | Active
Page 3.14 | Active
Pharyngula | On Strike
Photo Synthesis | Stagnant
Primate Diaries | Left
The Pump Handle | Active
Quantum Pontiff | Left
Questionable Authority | Left
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Respectful Insolence | Active
The ScienceBlogs Book Club | Active
Science After Sunclipse | Left
ScienceOnline 2010 | Stagnant
SciencePunk | Active
The Scientific Activist | Stagnant
The Scientific Indian | Active
Speakeasy Science | Left
Starts with a Bang | Active
Stoat | Active
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Superbug | Left
Terra Sigillata | Active
Tetrapod Zoology | Active
The Thoughtful Animal | Active
Thoughts from Kansas | Active
Thus Spake Zuska | Left
Tomorrow's Table | Active
Transcription and Translation | Stagnant
Uncertain Principles | Active
Universe | Active
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USA Science and Engineering Festival | Active
A Vote for Science | Stagnant
The Weizmann Wave | Active
White Coat Underground | Left
The World's Fair | Active
Zooillogix | Inactive
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2010 : 06:27:26 [Permalink]
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Tomorrow's Table is reporting that PZ's strike is working:PZ has posted a demand for some changes from the Seed management.
All are reasonable and helpful and will make ScienceBlogs a better place. It seems Seed management agrees and soon the changes will be implemented. So much so (apparently) that Dynamics of Cats has ended its striking already. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2010 : 21:02:59 [Permalink]
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And Myrmecos is moving back to old digs, with a nice message:Don't read too much into this change of address. Scienceblogs is having a tough run at present, true, but the biggest impetus is simply that I liked blogging on the old platform more than the present one. And, I was never able to overcome the feeling that Scienceblogs and Myrmecos were not quite the right combination of network and blog.
I've been a regular Scienceblogs reader since the early days in 2006 and hope to remain so. Behind the scenes, significant changes are afoot on the part of both bloggers and management that make me optimistic Scienceblogs will pull through the current difficulties. I want them to succeed, but I also recognize that I do not need to be an active participant in that process. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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