The SciCom Class Blog, and Social Media

This year, SciCom offers a brand new social media class, and as part of the class we just launched our class blog, titled ‘A Tale of Ten Slugs – Becoming science journalists in an electronic age’. It’ll be at ‘http://ataleoftenslugs.com/’ very shortly, as soon as the domain name registration goes through. It’s meant to be […]

Summertime/end of an internship/moving twice!/grad school…

Wow…yet again it’s been a while since I last wrote anything. It started off because I was busy, and then continued because I was lazy/had time to do non-computer-related things…:) I finished my internship at Science Illustrated and Popular Science magazines back in end-May. It was a really great experience, and I can’t recommend it […]

Pics of the Earth, Tweeted from Space!

Twitpic / Astro_Soichi. Japanese Astronaut Soichi Noguchi takes photos from aboard the International Space Station and tweets them directly to his Twitpic account along with a caption. He’s definitely managed to take several stunning photos, all over the world. Here’s one of Space Shuttle Endeavor, and strange-looking structures in Bahrain.

Teens think blogging is about as cool as Rick Astley hits

Teens think blogging is about as cool as Rick Astley hits. Wouldn’t you know, shortly after I decide to start blogging, I find it out’s totally uncool these days (see above link to the story). Actually, I guess it’s not that surprising to find that it’s becoming less of a teenage thing and more for […]