Coming Soon: Skeptics' Circle
In one week, the Skeptics' Circle will be coming to a blog near you - here, in fact!
The Skeptics' Circle is a rotating blog carnival of skeptical blogging. The period is every two weeks, and while older posts are okay, newer is better. Recent news and current events are likely to be heavily featured - as will certain eternally green favorite topics. It's meant to highlight recent blogging on such topics as urban legends, medical quackery, pseudoscience, Bad History, and other pernicious forms of nonsense. This edition will be the 28th such collection of skeptical blogging. The archive contains past Circles, some of which are wildly creative in design and execution.
I've already received some good submissions, but if you've written or seen any particularly good posts suitable for inclusion, e-mail in the link, along with a few words about what it's about or why it's interesting.
Deadline for submissions will be 8 pm Eastern time on Wednesday, February 15th. The Circle itself will appear on February 16th.
Thanks to Orac for the opportunity to host, to past hosts, and to everyone who's already begun submitting posts for the Circle.
[added: For those unfamiliar with the term, a blog carnival is helpfully defined as a well-defined, well-archived, regularly rotating linkfest. Pithy and accurate: thanks to Bora for getting the essence of it. (Link found at the first Big Fat Carnival, hosted at Alas, a Blog.)]
The Skeptics' Circle is a rotating blog carnival of skeptical blogging. The period is every two weeks, and while older posts are okay, newer is better. Recent news and current events are likely to be heavily featured - as will certain eternally green favorite topics. It's meant to highlight recent blogging on such topics as urban legends, medical quackery, pseudoscience, Bad History, and other pernicious forms of nonsense. This edition will be the 28th such collection of skeptical blogging. The archive contains past Circles, some of which are wildly creative in design and execution.
I've already received some good submissions, but if you've written or seen any particularly good posts suitable for inclusion, e-mail in the link, along with a few words about what it's about or why it's interesting.
Deadline for submissions will be 8 pm Eastern time on Wednesday, February 15th. The Circle itself will appear on February 16th.
Thanks to Orac for the opportunity to host, to past hosts, and to everyone who's already begun submitting posts for the Circle.
[added: For those unfamiliar with the term, a blog carnival is helpfully defined as a well-defined, well-archived, regularly rotating linkfest. Pithy and accurate: thanks to Bora for getting the essence of it. (Link found at the first Big Fat Carnival, hosted at Alas, a Blog.)]
Posted by Eh Nonymous on
Thursday February 9, 2006 at 6:14pm
*Not all comments welcome. Flippant, facetious, fierce, or fatuous, fine. Fraudulent, felonious, fabricated, facially insufficient, and farkin' futile, fuggeddaboutit.