Category Archives: Blogging

Who should blog in 2013?

Posted on January 9, 2013 by sflammia

The quantum theory blogosphere has seen some great new additions this year: The Caltech IQIM blog, Quantum Frontiers Thomas Vidick, MyCQstate Miguel Navascues, Schoedinger’s Rat But this is not enough! Our researchers are legion. And so must it be with … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Quantum | 6 Comments

Quantum Frontiers

Posted on July 9, 2012 by sflammia

As a postdoc at Caltech, I would often have lunch with John Preskill.  About once per week, we would play a game. During the short walk back, I would think of a question to which I didn’t know the answer. Then … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Caltech, Physics, Quantum | 2 Comments

Could Elsevier shut down arxiv.org?

Posted on January 1, 2012 by aram

They haven’t yet, but they are supporting SOPA, a bill that attempts to roll back Web 2.0 by making it easy to shut down entire sites like wikipedia and craigslist if they contain any user-submitted infringing material. (Here is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Computers, Economics, Open Science, Politics, Scientific Publishing | 9 Comments

In Search of Plugins

Posted on July 20, 2010 by dabacon

Speaking of blogging technology: plugins that I haven’t seen for WordPress but that would be fun (i.e. thing I’d love to do if I were king of infinite time.) A plugin to allow for comments INSIDE of a blog post.  … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Science 2.0 | 1 Comment

Reimagining Science Networks

Posted on July 20, 2010 by dabacon

Scienceblogs, the science network that was my old (where “old” = “a few days ago”) haunt, is in revolt.  Okay, well maybe the network is not in revolt, but there is at least a minor insurgency.  Yesterday, the amazing force … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Science, Science 2.0, Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self. | 8 Comments