Look at Me! Look at Me! It’s something my 2 year old daughter says when she is doing something for which she is particularly proud. Like spinning really fast or dancing with her Belle doll. As adults, we’re often too modest to call attention to ourselves so directly. But on the web, where there is […]
Blogging Community: Scientific Blogging
Yesterday I covered the community blog, today, the blogging community. What’s the difference? In short, while a community blog is often a single blog with multiple authors, a blogging community is multiple blogs combined into one site. Usually when you have a single community blog, there is a fair amount of editorial control. Someone often […]
Community Blog: AEA365
I want you to use your imagination and picture something. You decide to join some interesting professional association and take a trip to the annual conference. You pick up a registration packet and start leafing through sessions. Then you notice something weird…every single session is presented by the same presenter. Silly right? Seems kind of […]
Blogger as Curator: Brainpickings
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there is a lot of information waiting to be found on the world wide web. If only someone would take the time to pick out the most interesting things… Oh wait, there are people that do that. Many people. It’s the curator approach to blogging. Usually involving a […]
There is really no such thing as a blogosphere
Lately I’ve been bothered by the term blogosphere. Maybe it’s because I hate being roped together with people like Andrew Breitbart. Or maybe it’s because I hear blogosphere being used as if it was a source in its own right, like some sort of online collective consciousness that breaks stories and is somehow responsible for traditional journalism’s impending doom. […]
Practice What You Preach
I’ve had a busy and productive year. Of course, if you follow this blog, you would not know it. Some of the highlights include giving a presentation on web analytics, building a community of practice for a federal grantee, creating a social network for a local eval group, and helping a friend put together a […]
The problem with hand-me-down facts
Earlier today I read a nice post by UNC Sociologist and Family Inequality blogger Philip N. Cohen. The post, Stop that feminist viral statistic meme, traced a popular feminism meme down to its source. If you don’t feel like clicking, here is the gist of the meme from Cohen’s post “While women represent half the global […]
Why Academics Should Blog: Heavy Lifting
For some reason this post, published in the summer, has found a home in the back of my head. The article is titled “YouTube Better at Funny Cat Videos Than Educational Content, Professors Say.” Here is the gist, when you search YouTube for some academic topic you are much more likely to find popular low quality […]
Sunni Brown and the Doodle Revolution
I watched an interview with Sunni Brown on the Duarte Blog yesterday. Really interesting piece on the use of graphic facilitation. The interview is a little dated in internet terms (5 months) but relevant since she will be speaker at TED 2011. You can watch the interview on the Duarte Blog. After watching the interview […]
Moved
Ok, so I’ve switched hosting services and I expect some issues might arise because of the move. Good news, is that this will ultimately lead to increased activity on this site. I’m looking forward to more posting and less admin tasks in the very near future. Thanks for bearing with me!
The big difference between David McCandless and Hans Rosling
*My opinion follows, treat it as such* If you have any interest in infographics and data visualization you probably know the names David McCandless and Hans Rosling. They are both data viz superstars but there is a big difference between the two. That difference is their approach. The David McCandless Approach 1. Have an argument […]
Evidence Soup: Interview Wednesday
Yesterday I had the honor of being interviewed for Evidence Soup’s Interview Wednesday. The blog is for people who like evidence. If you visit this site, you probably fit that category. If you would like to read the interview, check it out here: http://www.evidencesoup.com/canopener/2011/01/chris-lysy.html