Some years ago, Bora Zivkovic and Anton Zuiker, of Science Online fame, decided to create a place where the best science blogging could be featured. That project, called the Open Laboratory, became so successful that it eventually grew into an admired annual anthology. ...
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18Jan 2013
Some years ago, Bora Zivkovic and Anton Zuiker, of Science Online fame, decided to create a place where the best science blogging could be featured. That project, called the Open Laboratory, became so successful that it eventually grew into an admired annual anthology. The Best Science Writing Online 2012 was published last year by Scientific America/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
But as Zivkovic thought about it, he realized that many excellent online science stories are also told not by written words but in sound, image, video and other multimedia formats. And it was this idea that led to a collaboration with other like-minded creative science communicators and the announcement yesterday of a new project, Science Studio. As one of the Science Studio founders, Rose Eveleth...
26Nov 2012
This morning, as I sat down to browse through today's possibilities for the Tracker, I came across a nice little science story out of Stanford. Two researchers "have successfuly enabled a pair of rhesus...
This morning, as I sat down to browse through today's possibilities for the Tracker, I came across a nice little science story out of Stanford. Two researchers "have successfuly enabled a pair of rhesus monkeys to move a virtual cursor across a computer screen merely by thinking about their response to human commands," the story reports.
This is not something I would ordinarily have picked out for the Tracker--it's a competent piece, but not remarkable. What was remarkable was the byline: David Perlman.
Perlman has been filing stories for more than 80 years, since he used a mimeograph machine to launch a newspaper in junior high school. He has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1940--72 years ago. Perlman turned 90 in 2009, a...
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary today, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism...
On the occasion of its 100th anniversary today, the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University put together a list of what it calls the "100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years.” Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward are there. So is Seymour Hersh. And the great David Halberstam. Along with Howard Cosell. (Don't ask me to explain that one.) You'll see a lot of familiar names, and some not so familiar, such as Richard Harding Davis. It's fairly New York-oriented, but then so is journalism, and so is...
Carl Zimmer has published at least two ebooks, although I don't know where...
Carl Zimmer has published at least two ebooks, although I don't know where he found the time. That's because he seems to have made a full-time career out of studying the ebook market, the apps, the publishers, and anything else possibly related to publishing ebooks. If you are at all interested in collecting and publishing those pieces that you rescued from a defunct magazine or website, you should see what he, and co-organizer Tammy Powledge, had to say.
Their list of resources can be found here. It amounts to a semester-long course in epublishing, and you couldn't find better teachers.
If you'd like a little lighter reading, on a very...
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