Carnival of the Blue #34: Awesome logo edition!

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Welcome to the latest edition of Carnival of the Blue, a monthly compilation of the best in ocean science blogging from around the internet!  This month’s entries are as diverse as ocean life itself, and are almost as awesome as the new logo that Jason Robertshaw was kind enough to make for this month’s carnival. You should all be sure to give each of our excellent submissions a read, but definitely take the time to admire this great logo.  It’s the standard Carnival of the Blue logo, but there’s a shark swimming by it! It’s almost as if Jason knew that a shark enthusiast would be hosting this month’s Carnival. And now, on to this month’s submissions.

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An open thread on Wikipedia’s list of science blogs

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A Twitter discussion this weekend between Ed Yong, Christie, and Sci Curious pointed out that Wikipedia’s list of science blogs is seriously lacking. If I’ve learned anything in my year in the blog-o-sphere, it’s that there are a lot of excellent blogs and bloggers out there. From reading the Wikipedia entry, you would think that there are only eleven.

Two questions arose from this discussion. First of all, is it a problem? Second of all, if it is a problem, should we solve it? I think that the answers to both questions are yes, but as always, I’m interested in your feedback.

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This week in spam

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Spam. Those horrific comments that try to sell you everything from free drugs to naked celebrity pictures (actually that’s pretty much all they try to sell). Almost all our spam gets caught by the filters, so our readers don’t have to suffer through them, but we do. Over the last several years, spam has been evolving, nearly to the point of poetry. I thought I’d take this opportunity to share with you some of the very best spam from the last week (stripped of links, of course).

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The Glorious Gam

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More than a year ago, my office-mate Kevin introduced me to the world of Science Blogging. Behind the bit-thin veneer of a Google search lay a sprawling and vibrant community of scientists, educators, and communicators. A community I had been completely unaware. After a year on the inside, I’ve come to understand just how powerful these communities can be.

Many of you have heard about the Concordia, the sailing vessel that capsized last week with a classroom-at-sea aboard. While exploring the reports and blogs about the incident, I realized that another, equally awesome network of bloggers exists out there. A network that marine biologists should be engaged in just as much as Science Blogs. These are the Maritime Blogs.

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