The 5 W’s (and How) of writing for the Web

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Steve Buttry presents the five six questions that should guide your reporting as you interview, observe and research to gather the facts for a story, whether that’s live tweeting from a conference, a facebook update, a blog post or your first long-form feature for an online magazine.

They can, he says, also raise ethical issues you should consider as well as helping you home in on links, graphics and people with …

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Scientists and social media

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Science and social media – It may seem counterproductive for scientists to air their dirty laundry in public, but in a world where the media is dominated by manufactured pseudo-debates over the reality of anthropogenic climate change, the safety of vaccines and evolution, the value of giving the public a window into what a real scientific debate looks like cannot be overestimated.

The latest science stories to hit DB’s virtual desktop @sciencebase.

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New Sciencebase element

Posted in Science at 10:34 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment  

I’ve updated the Sciencebase tumblr account, for those of you who would like an alternative one-stop shop for science and technology news and views from David Bradley. The site aggregates the Sciencebase, Sciencetext, SciScoop, and Reactive Reports newsfeeds as well as my “likes” in Google Reader.

To celebrate, I’ve created a new element icon and based it, this time, on an …

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13 of the best Facebook fans ever

Posted in Science at 7:00 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment  

In the spirit of exploiting the three principles of uber-link bait titles mentioned over on sciencetext, I wanted to express my thanks to a few people who are fans, or “likers”, of the Sciencebase Facebook page. These diamond people have all been particularly active recently on the fan page, liking, commenting, debating on wall posts. I hope I’ve caught the most …

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