Archive for the ‘chemical blogosphere’ Category

C&EN Starts Bloging

Monday, March 31st, 2008 (287 Views)

C&EN have started their own science blog. In recent years it has been common place for C&EN to blog while at the ACS conference or on a special assignment. A link to the blog is here: http://cenblog.org/ Mitch

New Materials Science Blog

Friday, July 13th, 2007 (127 Views)

I always enjoy introducing new chemistry blogs to the community. The newest addition comes from a chemistry graduate student from the Philippines. She has been posting for awhile now, but finally got my attention recently. Have a look and enjoy. A screen shot is below. She claims to be an introvert ...

YACB: Semicrystalline Chemistry Blog

Monday, April 16th, 2007 (78 Views)

YACB stands for Yet-Another-Chemistry-Blog. It is always a good day when I find a new chemistry blog before are competitors at happy-linkie-blog. And it makes for a rather straight forward blog entry. The newest entry into the community is Semicrystalline: http://semicrystalline.wordpress.com/ Screen Shot Below: The blog does a good job summarizing Sellinger's newest ...

Chemistry Bloggers at ACS-Chicago 2007

Friday, March 9th, 2007 (86 Views)

Looks like Guassling is trying to organize a chemical blogger photo at ACS-Chicago during the conference at noon Monday. The potential photo-op(C&EN hint-hint) is all nice and good, but why take a picture with your fellow bloggers when you could get completely wasted with them too: http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=10404.0 I actually won't be ...

Chem-bla-ics - Open Source Chemistry

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 (85 Views)

A blog not getting as much attention as it should is Egon Willighagen's Chem-bla-ics. The blog focuses on open source chemistry which is relevant for the online chemical world and maybe potentially even the chemical blogosphere as well. http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ The funny thing about people like Egon, and David Bradley, and even ...

Best Chemistry Blog 2006: TheChemBlog (as voted by you!)

Saturday, December 30th, 2006 (91 Views)

Congratulations to TheChemBlog for winning the Best Chemical Blog 2006 award as determined by Chemical Forums members and visitors.       I would delve into all the reasons why TheChemBlog rocks serious Mitsunobu ass, but there is no need, it is obviously the best. It has great content, it is written ...

Khymos - A Blog Dedicated To Molecular Gastronomy

Sunday, December 24th, 2006 (66 Views)

Thank you Albert and ?*? for filling in for me while I was on vacation! It was a really good vacation, I left the country for a week and didn't touch a computer once. Now back to blogging... ?*? and I both suffer from a similar disease, keep-on-top-of-anything-chemicalitis, and in that ...

Totally Mechanistic Blog

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 (53 Views)

So for those not paying attention to the latest Chemistry bloggers' favorite intoxicant or rant-session. A new blog has popped up with a lot of potential, TotallyMechanistic. The blog says it will be focusing mainly on mechanisms, which is great because I love mechanisms and I'm personally one of those ...

Nominations for Best Chemistry Blog 2006

Sunday, December 10th, 2006 (25 Views)

Anyone actually reading this realizes that the chemical blogging community has exploded in the past year. So I say we take a vote on whose ramblings have wasted our research time the most for 2006. This thread is for nominating chemistry bloggers. Feel free to nominate as many blogs as ...

Investigations of “excitable” female bloggers!

Saturday, November 18th, 2006 (34 Views)

In a recent article by Carol Waseleski, in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, she investigates the overabundance of exclamation marks, also known as exclamation points, by female bloggers. A typical reason given for all the exclamation marks is, females are more likely to become excitable and that the exclamation marks ...