[AstroNet] Defining A Science Blog (Interesting article from Scintific American)

[Sam Rametse]

Defining a science blog – heck, just defining a blog – is difficult. After
all, a blog is just a piece of software that can be used in many different
ways.

What is considered a science blog varies, and has changed over the years.
Usually it is meant to be a blog that satisfies one or more of these
criteria: blog written by a scientist, blog written by a professional
science writer/journalist, blog that predominantly covers science topics,
blog used in a science classroom as a teaching tool, blog used for
more-or-less official news and press releases by scientific societies,
institutes, centers, universities, publishers, companies and other
organizations. But is a blog written by a scientist that never covers
science really a science blog? Is a blog by a PhD in dentistry who spews
climate denialism in every post a science blog?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/a-blog-around-the-clock/2012/07/10/science-blogs-definition-and-a-history/




Sam Rametse
Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy observatory (NRF)
Science Awareness programme
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