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Berry Go Round #2
By Ian Ramjohn | February 28th 2008 01:41 PM | 7 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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A Trinidadian in Oklahoma, I am a biology post-doc interested in tropical dry forests and island ecology. I also have a blog called View Ian's Profile

I'm hosting the second issue of Berry Go Round, a new plant-focussed blog carnival, here.

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Hank
If you think we should host something like that here, sign us up for it. I know we're not really in the blogger community in that sense, but we can be.

We did the Darwin Day thing and had something like 50 articles linked from here. We're also supposed to be doing an Oekologie (sic) one of these in May. They're good community building and having it here would get it outside the same circle of bloggers and readers, so it's win-win. It looks like interesting stuff.

Having looked at a few of these over the last six months I have started to recognize some of the names. I am amazed at how diverse some of the writers out there are. Most here stick pretty narrowly to their fields (except me - I am all over the map).

Hank Campbell | 02/28/08 | 16:18 PM
adaptivecomplexity
I am amazed at how diverse some of the writers out there are.

That was my initial goal at one point, and I'd like to get back to it. I had a blast writing one piece about the history of vector analysis in Thomas Pynchon's latest novel, Against the Day.

One of my favorite science writers is Richard Rhodes, author of the best book on the atomic bomb. That guy writes about everything - sex, nuclear weapons, serial killers, Audobon, the Holocaust, Kansas - he's amazingly diverse. His advice on becoming a good writer is to "apply ass to chair", something blogging was supposed to help me do.

Michael White | 02/28/08 | 21:57 PM
Hank
I do it because I can tackle the things no one bothers with and because I'm not really all that well versed in any one thing. I do journalistic overviews of things that strike me as either common sense and people don't see it or examples of bad methodology or just cool newstips I get on the embargo list, where I write the authors of the study and whip something up.

Hank Campbell | 02/28/08 | 22:36 PM
iramjohn
Basically hosting a blog carnival should be done by one editor, rather than the project as a whole (in my opinion). There's real value in putting one of these together - I discovered a lot of new plant bloggers. And since the carnival is fairly young, I went out and found a good few of the submissions - that was good for me, made the overall post more interesting and useful - but it also got me very positive reaction from a lot of the people I linked to.

Ian Ramjohn | 03/01/08 | 00:46 AM
Hank
Sure. Mike and I teamed up for Darwin Day because it was short notice and a lot of people but otherwise we would just provide a page to host the carnival. You'd have to encourage the people to write something special or find them or however it works.

For Darwin Day we did a graphical tag - they put it on their website and that made it easy to find them through Technorati or IceRocket or whatever. So that made it less work.

Hank Campbell | 03/01/08 | 00:56 AM
iramjohn
Yep - I noticed ;)

Ian Ramjohn | 03/01/08 | 01:15 AM
Hank
Some Reuters love for Human impacts on pre-Columbian tropical forests

Hank Campbell | 03/01/08 | 03:05 AM

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