Archive for the ‘Science Blogging’ Category
Getting cited
Just checked a recent BMC Bioinformatics paper covering the overview of the Hadoop/MapReduce/HBase framework and its current applications in bioinformatics. A very interesting read indeed. More interestingly, this peer reviewed paper by Ronald Taylor cites one of my favorite and [...]
Let the buyer beware
A not so genuine and one sided editorial appeared in journal Analytical chemistry, it was awful to read and difficult to swallow. Bloggers are entrepreneurs who sell “news” (more properly, opinion) to mass media: internet, radio, TV, and to some [...]
Science blogging or Science journalism or Science advocacy ?
There is an interesting article in Nature News about Science blogging and it’s possible impact on Science journalism. PZ Myers on his blog Pharyngula writes that It’s good stuff wrapped around a slightly silly question — can blogging replace science [...]
We are so obsessed with Darwin that we forgot Mendeleev
More than 33,00 blog articles appeared in last one month related to Charles Darwin, as everyone is celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species. People [...]
Open =! Free? Open access cranks just don't get it
It all started from Molecular Philosophy blog, he wrote a series of post about Socialism in science (here are direct links to his posts: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4). Although I was not able to manage the time [...]
How nature blog aggregates the top stories
Here is a perfect example about how Nature blog aggregates the top stories, They aggregated two totally unrelated stories (at least I am unable to see if there is any relation between them), only thing common was “Image by Getty [...]
Fisheye Perspective- About my interest, science and life
I am changing the title name of the blog, now onwards it will appear as “Fisheye Perspective” with a tag line “A natural perspective with extreme wide angle”, which is basically inspired by my previous post Circular/Radial Visualizations in Bioinformatics-2. [...]
Aliens in Blogsphere
Image by Redgum via Flickr Blogging is very much a friendly activity, your write blogs, people read it, dig it, comment it. Some time these comments are harsh, but most of time they are very much covering. You come after [...]
