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talkpoliticsOK, so I promised not to link spam, but I really wanted to share this one with folks. So in the interests of this being more than just a link, I'm asking other people to share any nifty sites they might have come across.
Anyway, mine is The Conversation. This is a new news site out of Melbourne. The goal seems to be to be a blog for academics. It seems the majority of the content is provided by academics and people are encouraged to give their full name and qualifications when they register. It already has some high profile commenters, especially from the climate denial lobby in Australia (including the guy who has put up $100K of his own cash to bring Lord Monckton out to share his crazy) and some of the scientists producing the work that the same denial lobby uses as its science. It's only about a month old, so it may be unfair to judge this, but it is pretty clearly left wing. AFOF is doing the backend work on the site and apparently this is not supposed to be the case. I guess going left is just what happens when you study reality for a living :P
I was originally going to post this to TP Nonsense, but I've decided that paragraph up there looks big enough to qualify as opinion and analysis :P
Anyway, mine is The Conversation. This is a new news site out of Melbourne. The goal seems to be to be a blog for academics. It seems the majority of the content is provided by academics and people are encouraged to give their full name and qualifications when they register. It already has some high profile commenters, especially from the climate denial lobby in Australia (including the guy who has put up $100K of his own cash to bring Lord Monckton out to share his crazy) and some of the scientists producing the work that the same denial lobby uses as its science. It's only about a month old, so it may be unfair to judge this, but it is pretty clearly left wing. AFOF is doing the backend work on the site and apparently this is not supposed to be the case. I guess going left is just what happens when you study reality for a living :P
I was originally going to post this to TP Nonsense, but I've decided that paragraph up there looks big enough to qualify as opinion and analysis :P
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Date: 21/7/11 16:09 (UTC)When this happens I usually regard it as a message from the gods of/in the internets, and either reformulate it, or leave it on the sacrificial altar of the noosphere. Oops. Did I say that aloud?