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SciScoop Site News
By sciencebase, Section Site News Posted on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 10:28:36 AM PST
"The Soapbox" This posting is a permanent "letter to the editor" page where you can make your thoughts about SciScoop known to the editors and your fellow users, it's also where, the editors will make occasional posts about how SciScoop is run. If you're already a member, I'd recommend clicking "+Hotlist" (visible top right), which will create a new right-column box that will let you know when new comments are posted here. If you're not a member, then consider joining, there are many more features available to SciScoop members, such as comment posting and the chance to vote on other member's stories. Click on the "Post a Comment" link below to make your feelings known or to ask a technical question (although the FAQ should provide most answers). Previous Soapbox comments: The Soapbox: April 2005 - Apr 2006 The Soapbox: Oct 2004 - Apr 2005 The Soapbox: Jul - Oct 2004 The Soapbox: Apr - Jul 2004 The Soapbox: Jan - Apr 2004 The Soapbox: June - Dec 2003 The Soapbox: May 2003

SciScoop Site News | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 hidden)

Controversial Conjectures (none / 0) (#1)
by sciencebase on Wed Apr 12, 2006 at 10:39:18 AM PST

First notice - I adapted a clipart graphic of a cracked pot (geddit) and labelled it Controversial Conjectures, you should see it below the login box on the homepage. Currrently, when you follow the link, it will just take you to a null search. But soon I hope to add a new category to SciScoop under this icon, so that the more controversy-seeking among our users can post their own interesting theories, hypotheses, and ideas. So, watch this space...there's already a very interesting item just waiting for this category in the story voting queue right now. Click here to vote on SciScoop science stories

Controversial Conjectures by chad, 04/13/2006 04:26:39 AM PST (none / 0)

Post to front page too? (none / 0) (#2)
by apsmith on Thu Apr 13, 2006 at 04:13:40 AM PST

I spotted this in the RSS feed, came here and wondered where it was! Any reason not to put it up front?

Join us at the National Space Society and help open space to everyone!

Upfront... by sciencebase, 04/18/2006 07:02:41 AM PST (none / 0)

Bad links in the article Queue emails. (none / 0) (#4)
by pythor on Fri Apr 14, 2006 at 12:53:12 PM PST

The links in the article queue emails look like they're not getting some variables translated. Here's an example of what I get in my mailbox:

http://www.sciscoop.com/user/%%NICKNAME%%/prefs/Interface

I presume that %%NICKNAME%% should have translated to pythor for me. The link certainly doesn't work the way it is.

Should be fixed now by janra, 04/18/2006 05:56:30 AM PST (none / 0)

Works now... by pythor, 04/19/2006 04:52:28 PM PST (none / 0)

Technorati (none / 0) (#9)
by sciencebase on Wed May 17, 2006 at 02:23:34 AM PST

I just "claimed" SciScoop on Technorati and was pleased to see that it ranks #602! Not sure out of how many, but it must be millions...

If everyon who hasn't yet added the sciscoop tag to their technorati blogroll were to do so, that might push us up further still, and hopefully with more exposure would come more readers and so more people interested in posting to the site...

If you're not already registered with Technorati please considering signing up and then click this link to add SciScoop to your favourites

Add SciScoop to my Technorati Favourites. If you're of a mind to, feel free to add my personal site Sciencebase.com to your faves too, click here.

Thanks

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

Deliciously Digging Furls I've Redd (none / 0) (#13)
by sciencebase on Tue Jun 27, 2006 at 08:58:50 AM PST

I've added for of the most popular social bookmarking links to the story template. Please be liberal with your linking and tagging, it really could help bring SciScoop more recognition.

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

Chewing up the Chiclets (none / 0) (#14)
by sciencebase on Thu Jun 29, 2006 at 07:36:22 AM PST

I got rid of those old-style chiclet button things and added a new slew of mini-icons to allow visitors to add sciscoop.com to their social bookmarks etc. If you're bookmarking favourite is missing please let me know and I'll add it. If these are a waste of space too, also please let me know.

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

Spam members (none / 0) (#16)
by sciencebase on Thu Aug 10, 2006 at 05:49:10 AM PST

Maybe it's time to do a membership survey to see how many of us are spambots! I'd like to implement a captcha box to block these painsinthearse but I haven't the programming skills to do so and the scoophost guys say it wouldn't be simple to do either. How does fellow scoop site slashdot get around the issue? Maybe I'll give them a call and try to find out. Meanwhile, we only need another two spammers to sign up and sciscoop membership will be 2000!

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

slashdot isn't a scoop site by janra, 08/31/2006 05:36:53 AM PST (5.00 / 1)

Slashdot by chad, 09/03/2006 07:04:36 AM PST (none / 0)

How Slashdot does it by chad, 09/03/2006 07:08:03 AM PST (none / 0)

Spam Slashers by sciencebase, 09/05/2006 12:40:31 AM PST (none / 0)

2000 Members (none / 0) (#17)
by sciencebase on Thu Aug 10, 2006 at 10:57:41 PM PST

There we go! Sciscoop reaches 2000 members...pity one of the two new members since yesterday was a spambot, but at least the other one was legit...

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

SciScoop Milestones (none / 0) (#18)
by sciencebase on Thu Aug 17, 2006 at 04:29:50 AM PST

We now have just over 2000 members, have published more than 2500 stories and are still seeing several thousand individual visitors across the site each day! If only we could find a way to persuade the passing trade to put their stamp on the site with comments and stories.

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

SciScoop with Feedburner (none / 0) (#25)
by sciencebase on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 06:48:17 AM PST

We're now piping the SciScoop newsfeed via Feedburner. You don't need to change or do anything if you're already subscribed. In fact, the new system simply means readers who click the RSS button in the menu get to see a nice formated version of the feed whatever their browser settings (or if they've got feeds set to fire up their aggregator that should work just the same) and can subscribe much more easily than before.

With the Feedburner feed, visitors can quickly and easily add the SciScoop feed to their Google reader page, My Yahoo, Netvibes, Pluck, Bloglines, Newsgator, Rojo, My AOL, Pageflakes, and in fact any other newsreader enabled webpage or system they like.

The stats take a few days to accumulate as news readers come online and poll the feed. I'll post a Feedburner button to show the number of active subscribers once it's stabilised.

Please let me know if there are any problems.

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

Newsfeed Subscribers by sciencebase, 12/05/2006 11:03:50 AM PST (none / 0)

Simplification - That's the Name of the Game (none / 0) (#27)
by sciencebase on Tue Feb 27, 2007 at 10:47:31 AM PST

I'm going to tweak a few things on the SciScoop site to try and simplify the user experience. I've already disabled comment controls as I know for a fact their presence has put a few people off commenting. Other things will include a reduction in that overblown menu...

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

Comment Controls by chad, 03/03/2007 07:06:12 PM PST (none / 0)

Comment control by sciencebase, 03/03/2007 10:55:07 PM PST (none / 0)

Clever, Clever Comment Spammers (none / 0) (#30)
by sciencebase on Tue May 08, 2007 at 01:43:43 AM PST

A new breed of comment spammer is emerging. Not only are blogs and fora seeing manual comment spammers posting their myriad links for keep it up pills and casinos, but they're now embedding snippets of text pertinent to the post in question. I assume these are simply being autoscraped from sites like Wikipedia and Amazon as we saw with the half dozen commentspams from user "Evans" yesterday (all deleted Evans, thanks). Either way, they're easily spotted by our CrapGateTM system and deleted within seconds of their appearance. db

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

Feeding SciScoop (none / 0) (#31)
by sciencebase on Wed Jul 04, 2007 at 05:58:49 AM PST

I've updated the SciScoop homepage to trap a single feed item above regular posted stories. This will include all the extras from the site in question facilitated by Feedburner. It's not exactly fireworks, but a little July 4 celebration nevertheless. db

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

Feed Fix (none / 0) (#32)
by sciencebase on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 07:45:32 AM PST

Thanks to Chad for pointing out a problem with the SciScoop feed, I'd been messing around with the script that displayed Sciencebase items somewhere on the site and that coupled with a few tweaks at Feedburner meant the feed was resolving to that of Sciencebase. It's all better now. Feed links should all resolve to SciScoop feed. db

Art Meets Science and Science Meets Art (none / 0) (#33)
by sciencebase on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:11:32 AM PST

SciScoop has launched a new Art Meets Science section, following a suggestion from artist Randall Klopping. The first test post is currently in moderation. Take a look and let us know what you think. I hope this new section will reinvigorate SciScoop and invite any and all readers new and old to submit their science-inspired art and artistic images from science.

For more of David's work check out his personal Science News site.

SciScoop Site News | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 hidden)

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