Icon for Blogging Peer Reviewed research 15 Aug 2007 Dear readers, Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily has suggested that we have a universally available icon to indicate that the blogger is blogging about peer reviewed research, and he has created a discussion blog at BPR3. Please go make suggestions and add to the discussion. Muggins here will implement it when the consensus has been reached. Administrative General Science
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…and watch this icon show up all over the ID sites. Shouldn’t citations in the blog be better than an icon which anyone can copy and paste into their own blog? Seems to me this is just begging to be abused.
People will have to make their own assessments of the worth of the blog. We can’t stop them using it if we allow everyone else to.
Some of us (myself included) are brainstorming ways to police proper use of the icon as well. Go to BPR3.org and throw in our $0.02. I suggested registration and visibility of credentials…