Can't wait to read the next three posts and learn more about your vision! While I'm a scientist and a steem user, those two worlds seem to rarely overlap. @simoxenham, I think you're the first person I know who independently of #steemphilly and has now started using Steem. A network effect in its infancy!
Anyways I'm excited for more scientists to start using Steem, which could eventually replace centralized services such as Twitter and Medium.
a journalism model that depends on page views doesn’t create incentives to report the news accurately, it does the opposite.
Great point. It seems like the titles for many news stories are chosen not by their authors but their editors. I've seen lot's of good articles with exaggerated or incorrect titles. The incentives to produce click bait are so strong. Steem is not immune to click bait titles (see for example the plague of ALL CAPS titles), but at least here you can downvote if a title is misleading.
It's early days, that's for sure! Yes indeed, without wanting to give too much away from tomorrow's post, I'm hoping that with the launch of Steem communities the users here that are interested in high-quality science content will be better able to moderate the content they want to read, as users do on Subreddits, downvoting the clickbait trash.
Great. It sound interesting.
dhimmel!? You're on here! This is so cool - we don't really know each other but you once helped me setup a hetionet instance on Stackoverflow. So cool to
run intosee you on another platform. Thanks again for all the help!Also.. I just uploaded a geeky video I had been working on for over 9 months. If you have some down time/are curious about how pixels work learn here :)