{"id":786,"date":"2006-05-01T08:47:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/05\/01\/kosmos\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T08:47:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T13:47:26","slug":"kosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/kosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kosmos Before there were blogs, there were things called “books” that people would carry around with them in order to occasionally read the words printed inside. In a clever bit of cross-platform fertilization, DarkSyde and DevilsTower (Mark Sumner) from Daily Kos have put together a collection of science posts into a new book, Kosmos: You Are Here<\/a><\/em>. They’ve included original illustrations by artists Carl Buell<\/a> and others, as well as interesting exerpts from the comment threads of the original posts. DarkSyde is a great science writer, so I imagine the book is worth reading for the actual content as well as representing an exciting new-media experiment.<\/p>\n

And before there were comment threads, there were events called “conferences” where actual human beings would gather in a common location to exchange ideas and patronize the local drinking establishments. This summer will witness the first ever YearlyKos<\/a>, a gathering of bloggers at a small Nevada resort town on June 8-11. (Don’t ask me why “Daily Kos” is two separate words while “YearlyKos” has no spaces. For some reason, people type in a few URL’s and suddenly they think that spaces are an antiquated typographical anachronism.) Should be a fun event; celebrities to attend include Harry Reid, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, PZ Myers<\/a>, and Chris Mooney<\/a>. Hopefully there will be something to do to fill the downtime between the interesting talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before there were blogs, there were things called “books” that people would carry around with them in order to occasionally read the words printed inside. In a clever bit of cross-platform fertilization, DarkSyde and DevilsTower (Mark Sumner) from Daily Kos have put together a collection of science posts into a new book, Kosmos: You Are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-science-and-the-media","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}