Peter Griffin • Jun 17, 2022 •
It’s hard to believe that when we created Sciblogs in 2009, the iPhone was only two years old, being a ‘Youtuber’ wasn’t really a thing and Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok didn’t exist. But Science blogging was a big thing, particularly in the United States, where a number of scientists had carved out roles for themselves as influential and widely-read bloggers. Read More
Sarah-Jane O'Connor • Jun 17, 2022 •
For 13 years, Sciblogs has been a staple in New Zealand’s science-writing landscape. Our bloggers have written about a vast variety of topics from climate change to covid, and from nanotechnology to household gadgets. But sadly, it’s time to close shop. Sciblogs will be shutting down on 30 June. When it was launched … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Nov 09, 2019 •
Some days I sit and think, “what will I write…?” What do you say when you get to 1000 posts? Maybe you just start where you are, diverge to where this all began, then offer a collection of reader’s favourite posts, and a few of your own? (And throw in a few pictures.) Slow to fall This piece started a … Read More
Jamie Steer • Jan 03, 2019 •
It’s a New Year, and with it, time for a confession: my blogging output has been pretty bad. The good news is I’ve found a solution. Since joining the Sciblogs stable in March 2017 I’ve written a total of 17 posts. That’s less than one a month. And, in truth, it’s even worse than that because fully 13 of them … Read More
Brendan Moyle • Jul 05, 2018 •
It is the tenth anniversary of the Science Media Centre. That also means I have been blogging here since 2009. This was not the first blogging platform I used. I originally started in the Opera blog community. Opera shutdown their blog service in March 2014 as what was supposed to be a support community for their browser users took … Read More
Alison Campbell • Feb 07, 2018 •
That’s the premise of an article in Nature (Brown & Woolston, 2018), which I discovered via the excellent Debunking Denialism on Facebook (and if that’s not a good example of how various social media are interlinked, I don’t know what is). Since mine is a science blog, obviously I was interested in the Nature narrative. Brown & Woolston believe … Read More
Guest Author • Feb 02, 2018 •
Eva Buechel, University of South Carolina This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Ever since online social networks were first created, people have wondered why they’re popular and how they affect users. Researchers, practitioners and social commentators have expressed concern that they reduce more meaningful face-to-face interaction, leaving … Read More
Ken Perrott • Dec 01, 2017 •
Here are the rankings of New Zealand blogs with publicly available statistics for November 2017. Of course, Statcounter has decided to change their format again and this has caused another headache this month. Every time this happens it screws up the existing methods for automatically downloading the statistics. I notice a few regulars no longer allow public access to the … Read More
Ken Perrott • Nov 02, 2017 •
Here are the rankings of New Zealand blogs with publicly available statistics for October 2017. Of course, Statcounter has decided to change their format and this has caused a headache this month. Every time this happens it screws up the existing methods for automatically downloading the statistics. I notice a few regulars no longer allow public access to the site … Read More
Ken Perrott • Sep 02, 2017 •
Here are the rankings of New Zealand blogs with publicly available statistics for August 2017. Please note: Sitemeter is no longer working so the total number of NZ blogs in this list has been drastically reduced. I recommend anyone with Sitemeter consider transferring to one of the other meters. See NZ Blog Rankings … Read More