Science Linked: Bacteria - The Results
By Antonio Marques • Oct 23rd, 2007 • Category: Bacteria, Biology & Biochemistry, Writing Projects & CarnivalsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Sometime ago, I decided to give a shout to all the friendly science bloggers out there calling for articles that talked about bacteria. This was the very first Group Writing Project that I hosted on this blog: Science Linked: Bacteria.
A few (less than I was expecting but better than nothing) have answered my call and submitted entries to this Writing Project.
I wish to thank all participants. There is quite a good amount of Science being discussed here. Bacteria galore…
Without delays:
- Brightest Kidz is a blog specially dedicated to talk about science to the little ones. For this project David came up with Adventures in Bacteria, two interesting activities to introduce bacteria to the future generations. I never did that in elementary school…
- Greg at Evolution has a very interesting article reporting how Artificial Life has been created in a lab, using the Mycoplasma genitalium genome as template. Maybe it was not created from scratch, but something like this has potential but raises also the ubiquitous ethical questions.
- Next comes the first entry of my biggest helper. David Bradley from Sciencebase is going to have two listed today. Thanks David. The first one brings up a very interesting subject that I’ve also been thinking about lately. It’s general knowledge that the use of antibiotics as the front line against bacterial infections has the disadvantage of creating resistant strains that require ever so more of the chemicals to defeat. But viruses, in particular bacteriophages (bacteria infecting viruses) can be an alternative approach.
- Still with David, can bacteria represent a “deeper” cause for disease than what is commonly thought?
- What do tea and bacteria have in common? Plenty, at least according to Cesar of Twisted Bacteria. It was something that I had never thought about (although I’m a tea consumer) but some of the chemical characteristics of distinguished tea sorts can be originated by Streptomyces infections. The froth of the liquid jade tells you all…
- “Everyone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener. Everyone is wrong”. What a sentence. And with it James from Chemistry for a Sustainable World starts an article discussing why ethanol and aims at engineering living organisms to increase ethanol production might not be the answer to energy problems.
- This goes pretty much against my views on ethanol production using engineered organisms, my entry to this edition of Science Linked.
To increase exposure, I submitted this project as a Science Carnival at Blog Carnival. This brought in a few more entries, some very good ones, but amazingly, some others didn’t touch at all on Bacteria (although science was included, at least that!). Maybe the theme was not quite visible?! Although some will fall quite off the proposed theme, I’ll include them as a thank you for joining.
- 10 Highlights from the 2007 Aspen Health Forum by Alvaro at SharpBrains.
- Space Exploration: Government against Big Business at Phil for Humanity.
- FitBuff.com discusses 3 Simple Steps to Prostate Cancer Prevention
And that is the end of the Science Linked, Bacteria edition.
I’d like to thank again the efforts from all the people that participated.
Until the next edition of Science Linked…
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doh! I’m sorry I missed the gwp, I only just heard about it now.
Try emailing or tagging bigger bloggers directly next time, and let them help promote your project.
Jacob
Hi Jacob,
No problem, there will be more projects in the future.
And I’ve tried to promote the project and get some “big” people involved but not so many liked the idea (or so it seems). Maybe they’ll warm up more for the next one.
Regards.
Hi! I never heard about this project (not that I know everything that is going on…), but for the future you might want to advertise this as a blog carnival, like “Festival of Microbes” or “Carnival of the Invisible” or whatever. I think a microbe carnival is an empty niche that could be filled. I’d be happy to submit articles on symbiosis.
A catchy title, a fun graphic and contacting lots of bloggers will go a long way. Especially if there is a recurring deadline, like the 15th of every month.
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your ideas.
The answer I gave above is the same I can give you. I tried to contact some big bloggers, I started a new Carnival, etc.
Next time I’ll try to promote even harder. But my best guess is that the blog is still too “young” and doesn’t have yet a strong readership that could participate. Anyway, I’m happy with the results. For the first project here, I don’t think it was so bad.
Thanks for your comment and ideas. They are appreciated.
Thanks so much for taking the time to put this together! I’ve been getting lots of traffic generated from your blog post lately and I really appreciate it. Best wishes, Jim