Australia

Science blogging, a rethink

December 16, 2010
Thumbnail image for Science blogging, a rethink

The NASA astrobiology debacle is a chance to rethink science blogging. People think of blogging as amateur or DIY media, which it can be. But I reckon it would help if scientists started to think about blogging as an extension to what they do at conferences.

2 comments Read more →

Scratch flair with Async’s Luke Dubber

December 7, 2010

Last year, Luke Dubber got a call. He was on tour with his band Hermitude, and a programmer friend Gordon Childs had an idea for a scratch DJ iPhone app. With illustrator Eddie Dolan, they quickly sketched out their first app Flare Scratch. It’s been a meteoric rise – and one that’s stepped up since [...]

Read more →

Reading #2

November 16, 2010

Graphic designer/computer scientist John Maeda is really a perfect case of someone bridging the art/science divide. President of the Rhode Island School of Design, former research director at the MIT Media Lab, one of the guys behind Second Life. Here’s a great NY Times profile. He’s now on a mission to expand the STEM (science, [...]

4 comments Read more →