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Michael Barton
Unconference 1- Why do we blog?
August 30, 2008
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Fundamental topics to why we're here, and what we do.
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We do blogging for many different reasons.
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Do we want to get something specific from blogging?
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How can we do something better in a blog, that we can't do in the real world.
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Mo => Started a blog because he was a security guard and had a lot of spare time with a computer.
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Blogging is way to share your opinion.
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A medium like any other.
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Blogging for personal therapy.
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Discussing something you personally care about. Does it matter if it doesn't get a wide readership.
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http://www.microbiologybytes.com/AJC...
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An archive of what you're thinking. Lead to support network of other bloggers.
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Me - Blog can act as a CV for your skills.
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Use it as a platform for journalism.
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It's really, really hot in the main lecture theatre.
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As a form or Narcissism.
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Draw attention to yourself and become popular.
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Fight the good fight.
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Friendfeed commenting getting a mention.
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Freedom to discuss what you want.
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Two sets of answers => to benefit the public, or to get some personal benefit
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Do we want to use blogs as a tool in our work, or personal life?
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Blog to cover gaps in the current debate.
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Blog to give different speakers a voice.
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Can't blog about science that isn't yet in the public arena
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Discussion of blogging at Nature.
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People are curious about the Nature review process, can appear as a black box. Blog can facilitate understanding of the Nature review process.
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Beagle project blog => Raise money to build a ship, create a buzz around the project.
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Blog that originally started as a web page for text readability analysis. Became a blog about experiences.
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How long have people be blogging?
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Show of hands for how long people have been blogging. Good spread of ranges. Some people a less than a year, some people many years.
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Blogs often evolve from their original intention.
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Sometimes blogs create the stories they blog about.
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Me - Blogging with a long term goal in mind. For me it's bioinformatics best practice.
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Blogging as one of the last bastions of rational thought.
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Instead of ranting at the TV, put thoughts online.
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Logic, evidence and reason can never really turn back tide of crack-pot theories on the web.
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Blogging so that counter arguments will appear in Google searches.
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What differentiates a science blogger from a non-science blogger.
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Show of hands => Majority of science bloggers want to see something change.
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Loaded question => who thinks they are doing a perfect job of instrumenting change.
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Science bloggers often have an extra level of complexity in their discussions.
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What's difference between putting an advert in a local paper, as opposed announcing it on a blog. Answer that it is targeted to a niche. No difference to a niche market of blogging about chickens.
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If blogs show up in mainstream media, perhaps non target audience start reading material.
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If we are trying to change things, how can we do it better?
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Ben Goldacre is most successful UK science blogger, but is not a practising scientist.
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Can you build up a relationship with science editors?
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Blogs can be more persistence than main stream media. Will appear in Google rankings better than a newspaper.
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Page 1 Google hit for a blog post debunking pseudo science can be devastating for the target company.
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Devil's advocate => Perhaps science blogs are not appealing to the greater community.
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News editors see science journalism in the same light that they would dress making journalism, a niche market. News editors control the news.
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