The Atlantic, Scientology, and the Theft of Credibility
At a publication like The Atlantic, a writer earns the right to occupy editorial space through merit, not a sheaf of twenties slipped to the editor. Wired Scien...
Tag: PepsiGate
The Independent Sells Some Ed Space
Last summer I and many others left ScienceBlogs, our blog host, because its publisher had sold to Pepsi a blog slot that looked in every essential like the a no...
Neuron Culture’s Best of Year
I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most...
Marc Hauser, Virginia Heffernan, & Stephen Fry — Neuron Culture’s August Best
Moving your blog generally creams one’s reader numbers. So I was happy to see that though I left Scienceblogs in mid-July, August was easily Neuron Cultur...
Guardian announces new blog network and scidom over the blogosphere
The Guardian launched a new blog network yesterday, with a strong lineup: GrrlScientist covering matters evo and orni (bird lovers, take note), Evan Harris cove...
[Updated:] For Virginia Heffernan readers, some context on the Scienceblogs-Pepsi fizz
Before commenting I'll make three disclosures up top: I have written and plan on continuing to write for the same magazine, though I think this does not seriou...
McKenna & Blum (and her Pulitzer) leave ScienceBlogs
We had not been at that paper very long when stupid actions by his supervisors confronted him with a choice that no one who loves their work wants to make: Stay...
The ScienceBlog exodus continues
Of Seed Media's recent recent and not-so-recent blunders, such as (as Bora put it ) "t hings like this and this and this and this ,", PalMD says: [Se...
Are bloggers journalists? BoraZ nails this slippery thang to the floor
We here at Scienceblogs, by virtue of moving from our individual blogs to the network, have largely left the realm of “distributed by individuals to each other”...
Where the ScienceBlog exodees went
The wonderful Skulls in the Stars is kindly keeping tabs on the virtual whereabouts of the bloggers who left Scienceblogs over PepsiGate. I thought I’d pa...