{"id":16000,"date":"2013-02-26T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16000"},"modified":"2013-02-26T12:50:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:50:09","slug":"the-bloggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/the-bloggies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloggies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"\/\/storify.com\/gregladen\/why-does-the-science-community-shun-the-bloggies.js\"><\/script><noscript>[<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/gregladen\/why-does-the-science-community-shun-the-bloggies\" target=\"_blank\">View the story &#8220;Why does the science community shun the Bloggies?&#8221; on Storify<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h1>Why does the science community shun the Bloggies?<\/h1>\n<h2>I was shocked to discover that @bloggies is unaware of the reason that science blogs no longer participate in the contest.  @bloggies noted: Prominent climate skeptic blogs tend to campaign for nominations, while other science blogs don&#8217;t seem to mention the Bloggies.<\/h2>\n<p>Storified by <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/gregladen\">Greg Laden<\/a>&middot; Tue, Feb 26 2013 10:47:37<\/p>\n<div>@gregladen I don&#8217;t know what the reason is myself.The Weblog Awards<\/div>\n<div>.@Bloggies Maybe I&#8217;ll write a blog post about it and send you the link if you really don&#8217;t know.  But really, you must know.Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>@gregladen Do you mean the reason that climate skeptics are attracted to the Bloggies, or the reason that other science blogs aren&#8217;t?The Weblog Awards<\/div>\n<div>@Bloggies Both  It isn&#8217;t just a matter of attraction or interest, but purpose and intent. Also, &quot;other&quot; is not the right word there.Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>@gregladen Prior winner history is the only reason I know. I don&#8217;t know why no sci bloggers mentioned the category when it was made in 2011.The Weblog Awards<\/div>\n<div>.@Bloggies The science blogging community is fully aware of the situation and there has been commentary on it.Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>@Bloggies &quot;Another year, another weblog contest duped&quot; http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2011\/02\/18\/207555\/bizarro-world-bloggies-finalist-for-best-science-blog-is-anti-science-website-wattsupwiththat\/Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>. @Bloggies &quot;..the death of Science in America..the five candidates on the shortlist.. one rabid anti-science blog http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2012\/02\/another-sign-of-the-death-of-science-in-america\/Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>.@Bloggies &quot;Bizarro world \u2018Bloggies\u2019 finalist for Best Science Blog is \u2026 anti-science website&quot; http:\/\/sierraactivist.org\/2011\/02\/18\/bizarro-world-%E2%80%98bloggies%E2%80%99-finalist-for-best-science-blog-is-%E2%80%A6-anti-science-website-wattsupwiththat\/Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>.@Bloggies &quot;Those that rouse or manufacture enough support, can engineer a win in the submitted category&#8230; 1\/2Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>..resulting in awards for a blog that routinely misinforms on scientific subjects and even slanders scientists.&#8221; 2\/2<\/div>\n<div>.@Bloggies last two tweets from this source: http:\/\/climatecrocks.com\/2012\/01\/25\/climate-denial-and-manufacturing-legitimacy\/Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>.@Bloggies &quot;&#8230; I&#8217;d say this has gotten political.&quot; http:\/\/whateveresque.com\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=13&amp;t=484Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>.@Bloggies You run a blog award w\/a science category. Anti science activists took it over. No legit science bloggers want any part of it.Greg Laden<\/div>\n<div>The Bloggies no longer serves the science blogging community. &nbsp;If there intent was to do so, they need to change how they do things. &nbsp;I would like to suggest the addition of a new category: Climate Skepticism. Put the climate science denialist blogs in that category and only valid science blogs in the science category. &nbsp;That is the only way to regain interest from the science community short of simply banning the fake science blogs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display:none\">claimtoken-512d0aa6de0dc<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[View the story &#8220;Why does the science community shun the Bloggies?&#8221; on Storify] Why does the science community shun the Bloggies? I was shocked to discover that @bloggies is unaware of the reason that science blogs no longer participate in the contest. @bloggies noted: Prominent climate skeptic blogs tend to campaign for nominations, while other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/the-bloggies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Bloggies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,857,1882,1246,3647],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4a4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}