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Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
September 27th, 2011
Category: Blogging
The creator of Binge Inking, a fine UK-based blog about addiction and recovery, has decided to end his blog. I will miss reading it, but also find something satisfying and admirable in a blogger making a clear decision and acting on it. Many blogs seem to just slowly peter out, as the blogger loses interest [...]
September 6th, 2011
Category: Blogging
My flight was late, the cab got stuck in traffic and I was at risk of missing a critical meeting with a group of senior scientists that would have a significant impact on my career. I changed clothes rapidly in my hotel room and raced downstairs. In the hallway I ran into Professor Ken Maton, [...]
August 22nd, 2011
Category: Blogging, Personal moment
If you blog, you don’t frequently receive credible market signals about the value of what you do. You experience psychic satisfaction. You can count the comments under your post. You get emails from friends and colleagues—not to mention the missives from strangers, friendly or otherwise. You can Google your stuff and check for good links. [...]
August 19th, 2011
Category: Blogging, Politics and Leadership
I don’t think it has been announced yet on RBC that we entered a few months back into a partnership with Washington Monthly. RBC posts are now regularly carried on WashMo’s “Ten Miles Square” blog, where you can also read stimulating comments by a number of other bloggers. To wit, my fellow West Virginia mountaineer, [...]
June 21st, 2011
Category: Blogging, Policy Analysis
I recently wrote a New Republic column about cell phones and brain tumors. I was gratified to see my column get some attention. Yet when I started to see it pop up on websites such as verizoncustomer.net, and when I started getting emails from other public health researchers, I realized that some clarification and correction [...]
May 28th, 2011
Category: Blogging
One of the structural advantages currently enjoyed by the right wing is its capacity to coordinate attention on whatever topics Roger Ailes and his minions have decided will be most helpful to their cause. The Blue team enjoys no comparable coordination mechanism. To some extent this reflects basic differences in political ethics and personality between [...]
May 3rd, 2011
Category: Blogging, MSM (mainstream media)
Why bloggers are useful: the biggest risks are too boring to sell papers.
February 14th, 2011
Category: Blogging
Not a bit of it. I’d be inclined to make a moral claim on behalf of some of HuffPo’s worker-bees, but not for those of us who merely droned on.
February 13th, 2011
Category: Blogging
Interesting development: Huffington Post is being sold to AOL for almost a third of a billion dollars when it built a chunk of its reputation and content from unpaid contributors (Harold Pollack and Mark Kleiman among them, I believe). I wonder so will ask publicly: Mark, Harold, do you believe any of this loot should [...]