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Catriona Menzies-Pike on crowdfunding New Matilda

January 24, 2011
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When New Matilda closed its doors at the end of June, 2010, a lot of people sighed. Others shook their heads (“Someone should do something about this!”). A few people said they had a bad business model (“What, paying writers!”) and a few hard heads just thought it was part and parcel of running a media business in this day and age (“Fail fast!”). But with the indefatigable Marni Cordell at the helm and Catriona Menzies-Pike as associate editor, we should have known to expect more.

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Maybe it’s time to accept failure

January 19, 2011
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Okay, so let’s start by agreeing none of us like to fail. It’s in our cells. But I’m interviewing Yiying Lu tomorrow, yes she of the fail whale, and I’m thinking about failure. And our relationship with failure.

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Science blogging, a rethink

December 16, 2010
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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.

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