tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post2541115679231554106..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Should you write a science blog?Sabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-87713200342875749842014-01-27T09:20:59.438-05:002014-01-27T09:20:59.438-05:00Sandeep,
If you can find "no good things to ...Sandeep,<br /><br />If you can find "no good things to write about" why do you think that anybody should read what you don't want to write about?Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13367575476718604742014-01-26T09:05:01.691-05:002014-01-26T09:05:01.691-05:00Hi Bee,
I am a science graduate student. I always...Hi Bee,<br /><br />I am a science graduate student. I always wanted to write, and I started to blog. Well, honestly, for the first two attempts, I lost my interest and it was always shaky.<br /><br />I made up my mind this time, I have been blogging from the last six months, around 5-6 articles per month. Mostly, I can not find good things to write about. Traffic is absolutely close to zero Sparklinginvinciblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01806491983710545100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-77622914205524362422013-10-01T08:33:05.175-04:002013-10-01T08:33:05.175-04:00"Above everything, don’t call a blogpost a bl..."Above everything, don’t call a blogpost a blog."<br />But blog is a silly word already. Blog post is too clumsy.<br />Post is too general, and neither article nor paper fit the bill.<br />I'd prefer to be able to say "Super blog" and leave the weather a little hazy (and the author a little peeved).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-53328467023155136852013-09-09T00:40:19.497-04:002013-09-09T00:40:19.497-04:00I agree that blogs need to be maintained at least ...I agree that blogs need to be maintained at least once a week; and that most professional (or student) scientists prolly don't have the time for that. That's why I am pleased to be able to provide space on my blog to any planetary scientist who's itching to try out writing a little bit but doesn't want to commit to writing once a week or more. You get experience without commitmentEmily Lakdawallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15703018556292775809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-14976889294921920082013-09-02T05:05:55.878-04:002013-09-02T05:05:55.878-04:00Phillip,
Oh, right, sorry for the blunder. I just...Phillip,<br /><br />Oh, right, sorry for the blunder. I just changed the feed in my reader, so I don't really care who blogs under which template.<br /><br />Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-217553251165467512013-09-02T04:48:21.672-04:002013-09-02T04:48:21.672-04:00"Re Cosmic Variance. Sean writes well."
...<i>"Re Cosmic Variance. Sean writes well."</i><br /><br />Yes, but he left Cosmic Variance a while back and returned to his own blog, Preposterous Universe. I've also noticed that Cosmic Variance seems to be abandoned.<br />Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18138135943820025232013-09-02T04:47:00.618-04:002013-09-02T04:47:00.618-04:00"In the last few years I've been using Fa...<i>"In the last few years I've been using Facebook for my monologues."</i><br /><br />And so we meet again, Amara. Not being on Facebook, I realize why you have disappeared from my universe. :-)Phillip Helbighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067585245603436809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-43390879561424188942013-09-01T18:41:10.886-04:002013-09-01T18:41:10.886-04:00Interesting advice. I used to write for FQXi and r...Interesting advice. I used to write for FQXi and recently I started my own blog: http://fmoldove.blogspot.com/ My major fear still is that I'll run out of topics.Florin Moldoveanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01087655914212705768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68771842789136339242013-09-01T08:59:45.812-04:002013-09-01T08:59:45.812-04:00Thank you for this!
GeorgeThank you for this!<br />Georgegaw3https://www.blogger.com/profile/12621031656935720190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-86063259213892176852013-08-31T15:08:43.430-04:002013-08-31T15:08:43.430-04:00You are the best science blogger I have read.
One...You are the best science blogger I have read.<br /><br />One nice piece of advice from Muriel Spark, is always to write as if it will be read by a very dear old friend of yours.<br /><br />Thanks for the entertainment, the enlightenment and the curiosity you have provoked in me.Wild Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15587365986993498980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37905752363246162992013-08-31T13:42:16.419-04:002013-08-31T13:42:16.419-04:00Sounds like good advice, Bee. I've started doi...Sounds like good advice, Bee. I've started doing a bit of blogging myself as it happens, and will bear it in mind. I don't have my own blog or anything, I'm just a contributor to something set up by a guy called James Delingpole. And it isn't really a physics blog, mine is the only physics on there. But hey, you have to start somewhere. And it does focus the mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-8044067237286619572013-08-31T10:52:22.464-04:002013-08-31T10:52:22.464-04:00I don't have the time, and I have a love-hate ...I don't have the time, and I have a love-hate relationship with writing. My blog is totally a testament to my wishful thinking! In fact--perhaps that's its purpose. MineralPhyshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04484992345043279641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-92098432311547954822013-08-30T22:07:22.790-04:002013-08-30T22:07:22.790-04:00Bee:And I'm afraid that most people do not fol...<b>Bee</b>:<i>And I'm afraid that most people do not follow the cross-links, so they'll always only see part of the picture that I have in my mind. Communication can be difficult.</i><br /><br />It is exciting to have found these connections developing in one's mind. It 's like given the mind, calisthenics to stretch the brane?:)<br /><br />Eventually, the picture comes out as youPlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-57540614018462935362013-08-30T22:05:44.481-04:002013-08-30T22:05:44.481-04:00Bee:And I'm afraid that most people do not fol...<b>Bee</b>:<i>And I'm afraid that most people do not follow the cross-links, so they'll always only see part of the picture that I have in my mind. Communication can be difficult.</i><br /><br />It is exciting to have found these connections developing in one's mind. It 's like given the mind, calisthenics to stretch the brane?:)<br /><br />Eventually, the picture comes out as youPlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-40801158497617496312013-08-30T21:03:50.555-04:002013-08-30T21:03:50.555-04:00This post represents really a good and coherent ad...This post represents really a good and coherent advice why and how to start with blogging. But I don't agree, we do need more quantum gravitists blogging. There is actually nearly nothing to blog about it in publicly comprehensible way and more blogs about quantum gravity would just increase the already rather high noise/signal ratio. Many dogs, rabbit's death. A hundred times nothing Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-19783378599931035172013-08-30T11:34:14.831-04:002013-08-30T11:34:14.831-04:00"as long as you have an IQ above 70" 86..."<i>as long as you have an IQ above 70</i>" 86. The Los Angeles Unified School District vs. the California Academic Performance Index test shows average high school 83-86 IQ. Said leaders of tomorrow are incoherent on paper.<br /><br />"<i>'What happened to your hair?'</i>" Waves and curls fall in and out of fashion demanding women are forever lacking. Be Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64107910931564451052013-08-30T08:54:17.537-04:002013-08-30T08:54:17.537-04:00Dear Phil,
Thanks for the kind words. Of course I...Dear Phil,<br /><br />Thanks for the kind words. Of course I take. I take the feedback from the comments to begin with :o) Best,<br /><br />SabineSabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-50787101149383019282013-08-30T08:42:54.968-04:002013-08-30T08:42:54.968-04:00Robert,
No, I haven't considered becoming a s...Robert,<br /><br />No, I haven't considered becoming a stop shop for news. There are sufficiently many of these already and I'm not interested in doing that. Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-30097961599219696662013-08-30T08:42:00.577-04:002013-08-30T08:42:00.577-04:00Hi Plato,
Thanks for the kind words, esp from a v...Hi Plato,<br /><br />Thanks for the kind words, esp from a veteran blogger like you :o) And yes, I also noticed that as stuff accumulates it becomes more useful. As a reference of my own thought processes and as a pool of thoughts that I can connect. I have some problem though with the linearity of writing in general. And I'm afraid that most people do not follow the cross-links, so they'Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-30985690332509293962013-08-30T08:38:42.962-04:002013-08-30T08:38:42.962-04:00Amara,
Yes, I quite enjoy your facebook posts, y...Amara, <br /><br />Yes, I quite enjoy your facebook posts, you write really well :o) On some level it really doesn't matter much which forum you use to express yourself. After all it's about you, not about the medium. And facebook has the clear advantage of being more flexible on the private/public settings. Let me ask you a question though. Have you figured out any way to backup your Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-14387876292630897512013-08-30T08:32:55.738-04:002013-08-30T08:32:55.738-04:00Robert,
Re Cosmic Variance. Sean writes well. Als...Robert,<br /><br />Re Cosmic Variance. Sean writes well. Also, my own interests have some overlap with his, so it's one of the (relatively few) blogs that I follow. I'm not terribly excited about multiverse and boltzmann brains and stuff like this though, so my interest has its limits. Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38206835181549726232013-08-30T06:43:37.875-04:002013-08-30T06:43:37.875-04:00Bee: Words – Once upon a time I went to a Tai Chi ...<i>Bee: Words – Once upon a time I went to a Tai Chi class.... But I also took away a lesson, one that’s been useful for my writing: Don’t try to take hits frontally, deviate them and use the momentum. </i><br /><br />Haha....you got the very essence here about grokking and consuming something very engaging about life in general. Getting the feel for something and becoming it.....to let it move PlatoHagelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00849253658526056393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68222654307762657372013-08-30T06:21:59.477-04:002013-08-30T06:21:59.477-04:00Hi Bee,
A nice piece, yet I think you left out th...Hi Bee,<br /><br />A nice piece, yet I think you left out the most important thing in being able to become a successful and appreciated blogger; well at least from my point of view. For me it comes down to whether if one is primarily a giver or a taker. That being I would argue the best bloggers are givers and in such regard I have found you always as one of the best. I know in the past you'Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63536121652497266182013-08-30T05:49:37.358-04:002013-08-30T05:49:37.358-04:00Lovely. Thanks for the food-for-thought, Sabine. I...Lovely. Thanks for the food-for-thought, Sabine. In the last few years I've been using Facebook for my monologues. I used to use my old domain for story-telling, in the years before blogs began, but I never made the leap to use my domain for blogging. Part of my brain says: "Wait until this blogging phase of the Web passes, and then you'll be ready for the next generation of Amarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05707694238217958618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55067169507551841412013-08-30T05:41:00.964-04:002013-08-30T05:41:00.964-04:00What is your take on the Cosmicvariance, one time ...What is your take on the Cosmicvariance, one time rated #1 Physics blog..just got ABANDONED. Due to the Cancer of crackpot media (Kalmbach Publishing), which acquired Discover magazine, print & online.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.science20.com/science_20/blog/discover_magazine_sold_print_science_media_valuations_plummet" rel="nofollow">http://www.science20.com/science_20/blog/B Yen/Getty Images [ iTunes demo ]https://www.blogger.com/profile/00258138866562068722noreply@blogger.com