Blogger News: No Se Nada Leaves ScienceBlogs, NYT Launches TierneyLab, Books on Blogs (Element List)

Blogger News: No Se Nada Leaves ScienceBlogs, NYT Launches TierneyLab, Books on Blogs

No Se Nada ScienceBlogger Kevin Vranes (Ph.D., Columbia U.; pictured right) has said adieu to ScienceBlogs and has moved his blog to its own NoSeNada.org domain. He also is continuing to post at Prometheus, the multi-author science policy weblog. A certain tipster 'in the know' recently suggested to me personally that Vranes has political ambitions beyond blogging. Anyone care to add to that? Vranes certainly enjoys flexing his political muscle.

Science Times columnist John Tierney launched TierneyLab on the NY Times website this week. With more than 50 comments on his site so far, Tierney is clearly off to a smashing good start. His first three blog posts (not including the intro) cover topics dear to many science geeks' hearts: money, sex, and aliens.

Remember what we said here and here about magazines devoting precious resources to publishing articles about the goings on in cyberspace? Now add a book of science blog posts to the pile. I wonder if this book will count toward certain academics' publications lists come tenure review because it's on paper. At least when you're done reading it, you can burn it for warmth.

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Bill Hooker:

It's not a book, it's a print-on-demand "blook". I dislike the neologism but the distinction is useful: it won't be printed until and unless someone wants a copy, suggesting that it is unlikely to end up being burned.

But sneering is easier than thinking, no?

Posted by Bill Hooker | January 18, 2007 6:57 PM

Posted on January 18, 2007 18:57