TotallySynthetic has just posted Blogging… where he exults over the growing chemical blogosphere. I share this enthusiasm. He also implies the reinforcement effect – if you have N blogs that are linked there are N*N links and this makes the blogosphere more valuable than all the single blogs. For example his readership is likely to be predominately practising synthetic chemists – this blog has (inter alia) a readership interested in scholarly communication. So they get to see his blog and vice versa.
I have linked to his post in this post so his blog should reference this post. That means that his natural readership should link directly to this post. (This is – I think – called a pingback). If I get it wrong I’ll repost.
What this means is that we are creating a new chemical information tool. It is very powerful in that we can do whatever we want (within the laws of libel, etc.). For example I have posted a simple bibliometric study on whether the compounds in his blog are interesting. The synthetic community is starting to respond. I hope some useful new views will come out of it.
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Comments
- pm286 on ContentMine at IFLA2017: The future of Libraries and Scholarly Communications
- Hiperterminal on ContentMine at IFLA2017: The future of Libraries and Scholarly Communications
- Next steps for Text & Data Mining | Unlocking Research on Text and Data Mining: Overview
- Publishers prioritize “self-plagiarism” detection over allowing new discoveries | Alex Holcombe's blog on Text and Data Mining: Overview
- Kytriya on Let’s get rid of CC-NC and CC-ND NOW! It really matters
-
Archives
- June 2018
- April 2018
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- November 2016
- July 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- September 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
-
Categories
- "virtual communities"
- ahm2007
- berlin5
- blueobelisk
- chemistry
- crystaleye
- cyberscience
- data
- etd2007
- fun
- general
- idcc3
- jisc-theorem
- mkm2007
- nmr
- open issues
- open notebook science
- oscar
- programming for scientists
- publishing
- puzzles
- repositories
- scifoo
- semanticWeb
- theses
- Uncategorized
- www2007
- XML
- xtech2007
-
Meta
Yes – it works. Within 30 seconds an excerpt from my post was displayed in the comments to Totally Synthetic’s Blogging.. post. So readers of that blog can seamlessly visit this one if they fell like it. As I have been urging greater cross-fertlization in chemical thinking, this should be a great help.
One comment on trackback pings: ‘ware spam! I had to shut mine down, as have many bloggers, because I refuse to have my blog used as a billboard for porn and I could find no technological fix that was sufficiently effective and reliable. Even comment moderation ceases to be effective when you are being asked to approve or delete a thousand attempted spambacks per day.
On the other hand, looking around my blogroll, it seems that trackbacks are making something of a comeback (*groan*). Perhaps the latest blogging platforms deal with spambacks more effectively than my old version of MT did, and I should give it another try.
I agree that trackback is a wonderful conversation tool, and since in my view blogs ARE conversations I’d be pleased to find that spam was being held at bay.
(2) Thanks Bill, I was warned about this but haven’t been yet had a problem. I started getting quadratic spam but installed Akismet and it seems to be very good (although it very occasionally puts useful posts in the spam – yours, for example!). I get about 100-200 spam per day and the false positives and false negatives are running at < 1%. However the spam is pretty uniform and maybe there is worse to come.