Blogs joining Rogue Scholar in December 2024

Martin Fenner

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Blogs joining Rogue Scholar in December 2024

December has seen good growth in the number of blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, with 10 blogs joining in the last three weeks. Here you can find all Rogue Scholar blogs, sorted by join date, and the December 2024 additions are listed below.

The newly participating blogs cover various subject areas, blogging platforms, and – to some extent – languages (one blog is written in French). And they reflect my personal history. Some blogs I have been reading for many years whereas others are fairly new, or new to me. I have contributed to the DataCite and Make Data Count blogs myself while working at DataCite. Blog posts like Sick of Impact Factors by Stephen Curry from 2012 had a huge impact at the time and can now be formally cited with a DOI.

Some blogs fall into the category of blogs at risk of disappearing in what I described in the Rogue Scholar 111 Pledge Drive in November: personal blogs that have existed for more than 10 years with more than 100 posts. The Depth-First blog is a special case as the author in 2024 sadly died from brain cancer. I worked with Egon Willighagen to archive the content of his blog, and you can learn more on Egon's blog or by reading the most recent Depth-First blog posts.

For the most part adding blogs to Rogue Scholar is a straightforward semi-automated business that takes less than one hour. The main issue is broken RSS feeds or feeds that don't include the full-text content, as I wrote about last week. One issue I encountered more than once in the December group is blogs that register their own DOIs but don't make them available in the RSS feed, requiring lots of copy/pasting if the blog has been around for many years. Rogue Scholar includes blogs that do their own DOI registration as well as blogs where Rogue Scholar does the DOI registration (the majority). More work is needed in 2025 to standardize the automated exchange of DOIs, which is also a major issue for blogs retrieving the DOIs registered by Rogue Scholar. Alex Holcombe wrote a blog post about some issues he had joining Rogue Scholar, and there is work for me to address this going forward.

But for now, enjoy the holidays. And maybe take the opportunity to read some of the newly added content, lots of interesting posts that I hope Rogue Scholar makes more visible and easier to find.

References

Curry, S. (2012, August 13). Sick of Impact Factors. Reciprocal Space. https://doi.org/10.59350/xqrv5-7bv94

Fenner, M. (2024, November 11). Announcing the Rogue Scholar 111 Pledge Drive. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/31k6z-6a925

Willighagen, E. (2024, December 8). Richard L. Apodaca. Chem-Bla-Ics. https://doi.org/10.59350/myaw4-dtg76

Fenner, M. (2024, December 9). Minimal requirements for a science blog. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/pzvna-jcs28

Holcombe, A. O. (2024, December 17). Let your blog run free! Alex Holcombe’s Blog. https://doi.org/10.59350/xkwjs-dwx58

Blogs joining Rogue Scholar in December 2024