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Rssowl 100 news items5/1/2023 It wouldn’t make sense to pick and choose, since I have no real way of knowing which performances around the world are good or bad. Should I track just the ones in my own local area? That wouldn’t be much of a service to my wider audience. I also opt not to post information on performances, using a simple guideline – there are too many to keep track of. I throw out all stories where the reference is trivial, such as newspaper articles that merely say “As Shakespeare once said…” or livejournal blog posts of students saying “Oh well, have to go read Shakespeare now.” It’s fairly unique, although I do have to weed out stories about racehorses and fishing poles. My blog is about Shakespeare, so it’s relatively easy to setup Google, Technorati and Delicious alerts for whenever somebody tags something that way. WHICH STORIES TO WRITE ABOUT: I started my blog just a month ago and I currently don’t leave out any stories, but I keep a long list of possible topics and don’t yet know which will find their way to the blog. But let me add this: when you run across an idea, even a simple one, jot it down immediately on the first scrap of paper you can get your hands on. SOURCES TO TRACK STORIES: already covered. TOOLS FOR FINDING STORIES: online forums, web, a few blogs (relatively limited niche). One of the purposes of the blog is to “dump” such ideas somewhere. I think a lot and I accumulated lots of ideas over the past years. IDEAS COME FROM: current work experiences, past experiences (I’ve been doing this activity for over two decades), conversations with colleagues/friends, conversations with students/visitors, TV shows (lots of material: TV coverage of science - and possibly everything else - is awful), book reading, plain old personal reflections and brainstorming. Concerning my blog on science communication, popularization and education,
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