{"id":326,"date":"2008-04-21T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T03:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=326"},"modified":"2008-04-21T21:26:33","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T03:26:33","slug":"the-science-20-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"The Science 2.0 article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0&#038;print=true\">science using modern tools interesting<\/a>, especially the part about &#8216;blogophobia&#8217;, which in my experience is often a substantial issue: many potential guest posters aren&#8217;t quite ready, because of the fear of a permanent public mistake, because it is particularly hard to write about the unknown (the essence of research), and because the system for public credit doesn&#8217;t yet really handle blog posts.<\/p>\n<p>So far, science has been relatively resistant to discussing research on blogs.  Some things need to change to get there.  Public tolerance of the occasional mistake is essential, as is a willingness to cite (and credit) blogs as freely as papers.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve often run into another reason for holding back myself: I don&#8217;t want to overtalk my own research.  Nevertheless, I&#8217;m slowly changing to the opinion that I&#8217;m holding back too much: the real power of a blog in research is that it can be used to confer with many people, and that just makes research work better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the article about science using modern tools interesting, especially the part about &#8216;blogophobia&#8217;, which in my experience is often a substantial issue: many potential guest posters aren&#8217;t quite ready, because of the fear of a permanent public mistake, because it is particularly hard to write about the unknown (the essence of research), and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Science 2.0 article&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}