Science blogging without the blog?
This session is moderated by Matt Ford and Jonathan Gitlin:
How to run a blog for your science organization. Or write blog-like pieces in a different platform. This would be about the possibilities involved in blog-like writing for commercial ventures – what do you give up compared to a blog, what do you gain?
Discuss:
This session will focus on methods of getting both scientific results to members of the public, as well as getting the public interested in science through means other than the conventional blog.
New communication channels—under the moniker of Web 2.0— have the potential to open a new wide range of ways to bring science into the public sphere. We will look at five different examples of organizations, and delivery methods by means other than a traditional blog.
Some examples we have in mind are:
- NASA JPL’s use of Twitter during the Mars rover mission
- Nature Publishing Group’s video archive
- APS Physics News Ticker for other bloggers/journalists
- Using YouTube and online video for promoting ideas and results
- Reporting science on a news site as opposed to a blog
While we have a few topics in mind for discussion, we welcome all participants to bring their own ideas, and have an open conversation on non-traditional, and non-blog methods of getting science to the public via the internet.
Here are some of the links that various people suggested (as well as links for the topics we highlighted):
http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix
http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/
http://www.apsphysicsnewsticker.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM (LHC Rap video)
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars (our science column)
http://arstechnica.com
Suggestions made by participants:
http://friendfeed.com/
http://www.seaturtle.org/
http://www.amazon.com/Marantz-PMD620-Handheld-MP3-Recorder/dp/B000Z8CUX2 (Marantz 620 voice recorder that was discussed)
http://www.zemanta.com/
http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php
http://mrtweet.net/
http://www.crayonphysics.com/
Thanks to all who attended and participated, it was a great session.
