Category: Blogs

Covering The San Diego Fires – Sources And Methods

Covering The San Diego Fires – Sources And Methods

| October 30, 2007 | Reply

First off, I would like to thank everyone for the mountains of praise and complements on our coverage of the fires in San Diego last week. It was a large amount of work, but I think it really helped everyone, including myself, understand what was going on. Several folks have expressed interest in how and […]

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Cruising in Iraq

Cruising in Iraq

| July 30, 2007 | Reply

The best war journalism going on right now is not being done by the major news organizations, but by independent journalists such as Michael Yon and Michael Totten. Here’s Totten out with US troops in Baghdad, trying to find a person of interest: The area did appear to be nice, billowing plastic bags notwithstanding. Every […]

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New collective information site to check out

New collective information site to check out

| May 29, 2007 | Reply

I’ve given up on reddit and Digg as both largely been hijacked by groups of political activists (ok, I’ll be honest, groups of barking moonbats) and folks posting “the most amazing photo ever”. In the meantime, Guy Kawasaki has started up Truemors, which seems to avoid both annoyances. Check it out. ..bruce..

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Support for a science blog

Support for a science blog

| March 20, 2007 | Reply

Tetrapod Zoology has become one of my favorite blogs. It’s written by Darren Naish, who describes himself thusly: Darren Naish – me – is, or was, a vertebrate palaeontologist, formerly based at the University of Portsmouth, UK. They still host my homepage, but have usefully deleted all the links to the pdfs I so lovingly […]

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