Types of Blogs

Hello all,

The topic we will be discussing next week is "Types of Blogs". After reading through the Wikipedia page on blogs, it seems to me that in terms of structure, the two main types of blogs that currently exist are the "common" blogs (which primarily use text, but some may also use other types of media, e.g. photoblogs, videoblogs "vlogs") and "micro-blogs". If you, like me, sort of know something called Twitter exists but don't really use it, check out this vlog to see what all the hype is about (note: I liked the graph at 00:45).

Since I don't think we can spend 50 mins just talking about how blogs use different software or media types etc., I thought it would be appropriate to use part of next week's session as a brief introduction to different types of contents in science blogs, which we will be discussing in the upcoming weeks.

Research-related
Research Blogging
EEB & Flow
Live-blogging: Phoenix Mars Mission

Academic Life
Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde
Female Science Professor

Education/Outreach
The Last Word (Question Blogging)
Tree Hugger
Shifting Baselines
and just for kicks, here's the link to Discovery Institute's "Evolution News & Views" (non-science [nonsense??]) blog

For all the blogs hyperlinked above, you don't have to focus on the details of the posts (unless you are very intrigued by the contents, of course), but think about the aims that the authors may want to achieve through blogging, and whether blogs are effective media to achieve those aims.

See you all on Tuesday!