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Science goes direct
By Dave Winer on Thursday, July 08, 2010 at 9:38 AM.

A picture named hope.jpgI've been reading about the crazy stuff going on at scienceblogs.com, and wondering if there isn't something the tech community can do to help the bloggers. #

Scientists who are also natural-born bloggers. It's a perfect example of people with information going direct to the people who want it. #

I've always felt that reporters should apply the scientific method. Here are writers whose lives are devoted to the service of science. #

It's not surprising that a corporation like PepsiCo would want to get in the middle of such a good thing.  #

What's needed, it seems to me, is a simple blogging platform, probably WordPress or Drupal, that could host all the science bloggers who wanted to be free of the corporate situation. #

I am not using this as an opportunity to promote my blogging platform. It seems to me it's too delicate a situation to insert anything like personal interests into. Rather, it would be great to get a home for these people, asap, one that will make it easy for them to migrate to a new home, but still maintain the integrity of the community. #

I can help in getting the feeds together into a single reading list, so that we can follow all the science bloggers where ever they go.  #

Update: There is a "diaspora" feed managed by Yahoo Pipes for the science bloggers who are leaving scienceblogs.com. This is great, but I wanted something different -- an OPML reading list that points to all the feeds. I don't just want the posts, I want the feeds too. #




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