intertext

My corner of the scientific community doesn't seem to have embraced the new social media much, even though we make heavy use of the Web and even earlier technologies like FTP. (NASA plays around in a rather uncoordinated way with Twitter and the like -- and NASA-JPL actually added me as a contact on Flickr, which felt very odd.) Most of us really don't have the time or energy to wade into the comments sections of popular-science and pseudoscience blogs, however tempted we may sometimes be.