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The purpose of the blog is to capture the “who” in Public Lab. It is a space for people to share out! Beyond the research, beyond the discussion lists... Who is here and why? Start a post by clicking here: Post to the blog ### Examples of content for the Public Lab Blog: #### Stories * Learning about something new, * Discovering pollution in your community, * What got you involved in Public Lab, * Your interests or ideas in the Public Lab community, * Something that has been on your mind related to Public Lab. #### Reflections and Observations * What it has been like to work on a project, * On conversations in google groups, the wiki or amongst your community, * Thoughts you had after attending an event or an OpenHour. #### Cross-posting from other sites * Posts from somewhere else that you'd like to share with others in Public Lab (Be sure to reference your sources!) * News, * Articles, * Reviews. #### “Action Alerts” or request for specific assistance * Something your community is pushing for that you'd like to get the word out about, * Something new that you want to bring to people's attention. Questions or looking for help writing a post? email stevie@publiclab.org ...


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hagitkeysar "Hi Stewart great to hear from you and thanks for you comment. Kite photography is definitely a good option for all sorts of cases, not only in term..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
StewartJameson "The aerial photography is astonishing. How high was the kite to take a photo of the Orb of Salisbury ? " | Read more » over 8 years ago
StewartJameson "Great exhibition from the happy kid on the photos I think it's been very interesting for audience of all age. Public lab, Washington University, th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
StewartJameson "I think the most excited part was the filming of the scene of Breaking bad, hehe :) . Anyway the rest of the day seems to have been amazing too. Th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
StewartJameson "This is the first time I see kite photography and its quality exceeds the expectations I had. I thought only the drone is able to make high-quality..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
derekhoeferlin "Hi @anyagroner thanks for reaching out to me. I just sent you an email. -Derek " | Read more » over 8 years ago
AnyaGroner "Hi @derekhoeferlin! This is a great post. I'm a science writer based out of New Orleans and I'm working on a story about Public Lab. Would you mind..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Oh my gosh, the exhibition looks so amazing! The balloon in a blue sky image is especially great. Thanks for posting! " | Read more » over 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "Thanks for all your responses! They are all exciting! Especially, even publishing as a draft and soliciting input/review as discussed in the comme..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren " reuse of popular tags for sure -- hoping to have a "recent" or "popular" tags, and maybe eventually a "suggested" tags, though that's technically..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "Thoughts on tags: some sites (Stack Exchange, ArcGis, etc.,) require a minimum number of tags, and also encourage reuse of popular tags. This ensur..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
gretchengehrke "@warren, I think that's great. Would there be a place to explain (maybe on the "How to write a research note" wiki) that you can make a unique seri..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Super duper, thanks Gretchen! Great ideas. I'll respond to the Rich Editor one for now, since design for that has begun: Can we power-tag researc..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
gretchengehrke "@warren, this is great. Thanks! I'm also interested in: (1) both in-line and post-text commenting (like how we comment on research notes). (2) bein..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Thanks all for your input! Good idea on movement from note => wiki -- and on authorship metadata. We should also do more generally to make wiki..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
mathew "I'm interested in the interconnection between research notes and wikis. Currently only an author or admin can move markdown from a note to a wiki ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
viechdokter "Hi Warren, this is great news. As a newby with the PLab spectrometry I find it still a bit difficult to navigate on the spectrometry pages. (Where..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "We need a lot more stories like this of KAP sessions gone awry; there is a lot more to learn here than when everything goes well. But maybe most of..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Rural "In the five or so seconds I had to react, I ruminated on giving the kite line or taking it in. Unfortunately, I went with the intuitive solution. O..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
mathew "Whew! All's well that ends well! @Rural Every once in a while a freak gust or wind shift will send a kite headed downwards (or high wind conditio..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Rural "So I received 1000' of 150-pound Dacron this morning. Early this evening, I dragged my sons out to a nearby football field to try giving a kite 100..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
stevie "Funding certainly comes into play. @eustatic and I just had this conversation. Someone at the NEJAC meeting pointed out that the DOT (one of the a..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
pdhixenbaugh "Could it be that in a world where Republican presidential candidates publicly call for abolishing the EPA, that there just isn't the statewide publ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
eustatic ""Gulf of Mexico: plans for new deepwater oil drilling would produce 2.1 million barrels of oil a day in 2016, adding 350 million tonnes of CO2 emis..." | Read more » over 8 years ago