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
General Science Thoughts on the “Shuttle gap” 5 Oct 2008 The two space shuttle disasters were due to political and military interference in the design of the shuttle. On the one hand, the various senators wanted parts of the shuttle manufactured in places like, of all states, Utah, necessitating the solid fuel segment design that failed catastrophically with Challenger, and… Read More
Administrative Australian internet filter dead in water 6 Aug 2010 Forners may not be aware of an extremely boring federal election in Australia right now. Indeed, few Australians seem aware of this. This is as it should be. Elections that are Interesting usually turn out to be Dangerous. But there is one good that has come out of this. The… Read More
Administrative Hello? Can you hear me now? 26 Jun 201226 Jun 2012 As I sit at Berkeley in the warm (suck on that Melburnians), I am moved to ask: can anybody hear me? My server provider “upgraded” their hardware with the immediate result that I couldn’t access or even see my blog for about 6 or so days. Of course this happened… Read More
…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…