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I actually find putting things here on Science Buzz to be one of the more relaxing parts of my job, but I guess that's not the case with all bloggers. Here's a story that shares some sobering news about the health risks that come with being a hardcore, 24/7 blogger.
Tags : Over at the New York Times, John Tierney has a science great blog, Tierney Labs : Putting Ideas in Science to the Test. One exemplary post highlights scientific research explaining why supermodels don't smile.
Learning with Web 2.0: photo from Wikimedia
Learning how to learn
Want to learn something? How do you find what you are looking for? Today's internet is evolving. Some parts of it are referred to as "Web 2.0". If you wish gain some new learning techniques, I recommend "learning by doing" and to accept my "Do a Dozen" challenge.
The SMM "Do a Dozen" challenge
Listed below are a dozen things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.
- Open up the Seven and 1/2 Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners and view the online tutorial. The tutorial is 14 minutes. You will need headphones or speakers.
- Set up your own blog and add your first post(entry).
- Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Google Reader account. To give you an idea of what I am reading I activated a feature called Art's Shared Items.
- Learn about and explore Flickr (a photo hosting site and community)
- Use picasa software to edit and publish some of your photos, create an album, burn it onto a CD as a slide show that plays in DVD players, and create a CD cover which shows all the pictures contained on the CD.
- Learn how to use Del.icio.us and understand how tags can be used to find information
- Explore technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
- Roll your own search engine with Rollyo
- Learn about wikis and participate in creating one.
- Learn how to use some personal productivity tools (spreadsheets and word processing)
- Learn how to find and use audiobooks, music, and videos on the internet.
- Add to this list by creating a "How To ..." article on your blog
I will lead the way.
I am learning by doing. I did the first three this evening, and hope to do more soon. I am a beginner at this, but will help you if I can. You can use comments to ask for help or let me know how you are doing.
I wish to acknowledge Helene Blowers and the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County for inspiring this project.
Caroline Smith and Gretchen Benedix from the Natural History Museum in London are trekking around the Nullabor Desert in western Australia looking meteorites. Follow along on their meteorite blog.
The staff of Nature have picked their top five "most popular, most highly-linked to blogs written about science by scientists."
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Pigeons!: pigeons pigeons pigeons Merwedekanaal, Utrecht. Photo Courtesy Eti.
Later this year researchers and students at the University of California, Irvine, will start a pigeon blog. 20 pigeon bloggers will be released over San Jose equipped with a prototype kit that contains a small GPS receiver, pollution sensors, cameras, and a home made cell phone. The sensors will measure the level of pollution in the air and then will send the information to the cell phone that will then text the information to a blog in real time. All this fits in a small package that the pigeons carry on their back.
The pigeons are set to be released at the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts' annual symposium in San Jose on August 5, 2006. The data they text to the blog will be displayed in the form of an interactive map.
So contribute your comments and ideas to Science Buzz now before blogging goes to the birds!
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