Ran across an interesting story on Slashdot this weekend: ScienceBlogs.com, a high-profile and respectable collection of scientific blogs, is in a bit of a kerfuffle after including a paid “nutrition” blog from PepsiCo. In response, some bloggers have left the site, others are on hiatus, and some call the whole thing an overreaction. The PepsiCo blog [...]

I’m a big fan of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, and HSIC Steven Novella has an excellent blog entry covering “dissent” in the skeptical movement, “Concern Trolls and Free Speech Nazis“. Proposition The whole thing is worth a read (in fact, everything Dr. Novella writes is worth a read), but his commentary on a [...]

An interesting complaint by Stuart Langridge. Same old, same old? There is actually a complex and deep issue in play here – the conflict between Free Software and Open Source Software philosophies, but what I find more immediately interesting is not Mr Langridge’s (somewhat justified) concern, but the selection of commentors, so many of which seem [...]