Exceeds expectations
We’re past the two-week mark, and though I’m waiting for hit-tracking data on how the blogs are actually being received out there, I’m more than satisfied with the results we’re seeing. These students are sharing openly their frustrations and triumphs, their wonderment and confusion. It’s just great. The pictures are wonderful, and some of the writing is really good.
There’s been a huge amount of traffic in the last two weeks about the often prickly relationship between science journalists like me and working scientists. While reading through some of it (it has grown huge), I stumbled across this wonderful article about a scientist who blogged his musings on an alternative hypothesis to a Nature paper and ended up sharing credit for that idea with another researcher he’d never met before.