Blogarithmicly #6 -- The Dover Decision

Mike Dunford at The Questionable Authority, has been posting regular compendia of commentary on a subject of interest to virtually all science, religion and politics bloggers and observers -- the Dover, Pennsylvania NeoScopes Trial. In the aftermath of the decision i decided another special edition of blogarithmicly was in order. First, to set the stage, are Mike's roundups of commentary prior to the decision. Part I is here, and Part II is here. Then, in the aftermath, is his roundup of commentary on the result -- that can be found here at Kitzcarnival!

Daniel Rhoads at A Concerned Scientist has begun collecting the morning after links and analysis here.

At my own site, milkriverblog, i also collected links as soon as they were being posted through the day. That compilation is located here. And Bora Zivkovic was doing the same at Science and Politics. His compilation is here.

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Blogarithmicly #5

Here we are with Blogarihtmicly #5 rounding up posts that contain extensive linkage on single subjects. This carnival is posted irregularly, but intended for at least once a month.

Fimoculous has a comprehensive roundup of posts that present year-end best of (or worst of, or just plain old) lists. Here's a different version on the same theme.

RWDB-J.F. Beck rounds up the news reports on the Australian race riots at Cronulla.

Boing-Boing kept track of the Sony rootkit fiasco and produced a timeline.

Geek to Live has produced a symposium on finding free music on the net.


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Tags: Links, Blogs, Culture, Ethnicity, Politics, Music, Xenophobia, Race, Year End Lists, Sony Rootkit

Blogarithmicly #4

Well, i've collected a few different posts, but i've decided, thanks to a suggestion by Bora Zivkovic at Science & Politics, that i'll issue a special edition of blogarithmicly just to cover today's dynamite first-ever Blog Against Racism Day.

The idea was originated by Chris Clarke at Creek Running North in posts here and here. And it's caught on, spreading like birdflu is supposed to. And that's a great thing, since the two tickets i know of that will make the biggest headway in erasing this vile scourge from our lives are a) dialogue and b) education.

So welcome to blogarithmicly #4 and the linkfests devoted to spreading the word about Blog Against Racism Day.

Your first, main and number one spot to check this out is at founder Chris Clarke's Creek Running North. Here's Chris's final compilation -- it's massive. Scout around on the site also for his commentary on the lack of insensitivity, and a sampling of the few who posted against.

Then skip on over to the link compilation at Satellite Heart (thanks to Slant Truth for the heads up). Kevin Elliott at both has a whole series of posts on the subject, but check this one collecting opinion on a related subject that originated with a panel at SXSW.

I've collected an initial list also at milkriverblog here [although it now rightly subsumed into the grand compilation at Creek Running North].

And finally, to find posts that are tagged, give a look at Technorati as well.

That's it. I hope you enjoy reading this superb array of posts. Coming up soon, blogarithmicly #5, featuring posts about the Sony rootkit fiasco and the buffet of daily political topics.



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Blogarithmicly #3

Welcome to the third edition of Blogarithmicly, a hypercarnival of link-harvests -- those posts we find which collect extensive and enlightening links on a single subject in any field. We have no biases here -- except that we're looking for enough posts to educate us on a particular idea. We're specifically looking for single subjects, loads of links, and little initial discourse . . . If you have such a post, or have seen one you'd like to nominate, e-mail me at milkriver.

A special thanks to Bora Zivkovic for his encouragement and consultation . . .

Blogarithmically has taken a decidedly once-in-a-while schedule on. It became very obvious very quick that too frequent posting was going to end up redundant. So, despite the best wisdom of all the carnival gurus, we're going to a post-when-there's-enough new material schedule.

So this edition starts with a rather old compilation, but for historical purposes, it's important.

First we'll take a look at some combined opinions on the Tom DeLay "affair. We start off with a solid roundhouse from the other side of the politosphere here at Outside the Beltway.

Here's a collection of links at Mapki to all the new mapping tools and what's been done with them.

The decline of Mainstream Media at The Longtail.com.

Then on the political side there's Bitch, PhD with a lengthy look at the Alito nomination.

Publius Pundit saturates us with the French Youth Riots.

And finally from the master at Science & Politics we get the lunacy of Paul Deignan and the renewed interest in John Edwards.


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Blogarithmicly #2

Welcome to blogarithmicly #2 -- the carnival where we try to locate single posts or post-series that provide extensive knowledge and linkage on single narrow topics. Here's our top posts for #2.

One of my favorite regular features is Hedwig the Owl's -- Living the Scientific Life -- Bird Roundup. Not only does she keep abreast of all the birds in the news, but in this particular issue she puts the spotlight on Katrina Relieffor Critters. I suppose a Rita Relief edition may be in the works. Here's the most recent edition.

Charlie’s Bird Blog has been hard on the case of media reports of pandemic Avian Flu. With his brother, he's out to show that the scare is not only overrated, but that wild birds may suffer illogical collateral damage. Check his stories and links here, here, and here. He also sends us to Dr. Martin for discussion and more links. You should also check out Mike Bergin at 10,000 Birds, who follows up with a plea for accuracy.

When i started blogarithmicly i thought i would try to not repeat topics over time, to at least find new angles. That was right as Katrina was making landfall. I chose Clicked as my linksource at the time, and it was a good choice as Will continued to update day after day through the storm and the chaotic aftermath. But now here were are and Katrina will be with us for a long time. So to keep us up-to-date (besides revisiting the earlier links posted on blogarithmicly #1) is Bora Zivkovic at Science & Politics with an astonishing array of links of just about everything you’d need to know or find in the form of more typical blogging – that is writing. Remember that this is also an ephemeral event and that some of these links will disappear more quickly than the usual web-half-life. Bora continues to follow-up with posts here, here, and a number of posts of his own comentary and others from the Yale List.

And now of course, we're under the threat of Hurricane Rita, which just surpassed Katrina in strength to become the third strongest recorded storm. In some quick looking i found this post from DailyKos which not only has us abreast of the storm from its potential path, but offers a look from another of the petroleum centers as to what can happen if the offshore industry is hit head on. I'm sure i'll have more Rita linkglobs to come in the next blogarithmicly. If Kos spreads the links onto other posts, i'll update here.

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Tags: Links, Blogs, Culture, Nature, Birds, Science, Politics, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita

Blogarithmicly #1

Welcome to the first edition of Blogarithmicly, a hypercarnival of link-harvests -- those posts we find which collect extensive and enlightening links on a single subject in any field. We have no biases here -- except that we're looking for enough posts to educate us on a particular idea. We're specifically looking for single subjects, loads of links, and little initial discourse . . .

If you have such a post, or have seen one you'd like to nominate, e-mail me at milkriver.

A special thanks to Bora Zivkovic for his encouragement and consultation . . .

So here's Volume 1!

Bora Zivkovic collects an encyclopedic array of links on The New York Times' series on Intelligent Design. It's at Science & Politics.

Rachel Larrimore rounds up opinions on Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. It's at Hurricane Hugo at Slate.com.

Patrick Ruffini's SCOTUSWire gathers up just about everything there is to know about the nomination of John Roberts.

Laura Erickson at birderblog.com has a comprehensive collection of links on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and the controversy that has swirled in recent months. Also check out her main blog for the most comprehensive coverage of the continuing debate.

And finally,

we take a multifaceted look at Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath. First Will at Clicked stayed right on top of it with this extensive listing of links and continued here and more now here, and here, and day five; he directs us to the comprehensive linkage of Bill the Pundit Guy who covers the news base as well as the live-bloggers; and we also land at WikiPedia as the live-writers make minute by minute adjustments to everything you ever wanted to know about the Gulf storm of the century.


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Here we go

Blogarithmicly is a sort of blog hypercarnival. Monthly i'll collect the best posts that are single-subject link harvests. These are posts that can be viewed as being similar to a carnival in that they collect a series of links on a particular topic, BUT they are collected by single individuals or single blogs and are on more temporal subjects (on a particular scientific discovery, or a certain political scandal for instance -- as opposed to a carnival's topics of science or politics).

This is not a travelling carnival like most, but simply a compilation here of the best of the best. Other than not rotating hosts (which we might someday if i find there is enough interest to actually make it happen) this will work like the usual carnival -- we will focus on individual posts -- although we're looking more for encyclopedic postings of links than extensive writing.

Submissions/nominations will be accepted by email at any time at milkriver. Please put "blogarithmicly" in the subject line.

We also will use posts we find in our weekly surfing that we find appropriate for the carnival.

The first Blogarithmicly we hope to be online Thursday, September 1, 2005.

For an example of what we're looking for, check out the excellent array of links assembled at Science & Politics on the New York Times' Intelligent Design series by Bora Zivkovic.