In this month’s accretionary wedge David Bressan at History of Geology invites us to contemplate the geoblogosphere. He asks how geology can impact society and real geology, should and can we promote the geoblogosphere and are blogs private business or public affairs, and [are] institutions under-evaluating the possibilities given by this new medium of communication?
Why Blog?
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202 days ago I was on holiday in Morocco, sitting round a fire in a Bedouin encampment in the desert with a group of fellow travellers and we started making new year’s resolutions. I made the extremely rash promise to take a photograph of a rock every day of 2010. I’m starting to regret [...]
Some time around last Christmas I made the rash decision to attempt a photographic 365 project – to take a photograph every day of 2010. As a geologist, the natural theme was rocks, mineral and fossils, and so Rock365 was born. Well, I’ve just finished the first 100 days. To be honest I didn’t [...]
With now 100 blog posts under my belt now I’m picking up on an idea from Chris Rowan at Highly Allochthonous who recently tweeted that he had geotagged his blog posts. It makes some kind of sense that blog posts in the geoblogoshere should be geotagged. So, after a couple of hours in google maps here [...]
Gigapan and Photosynth compilations of images of a spectacular fault propagation fold in Pembrokeshire. [...]
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