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Commentary: What is an expert?

A manifesto for credibility The emergence of the Information Age has given most everyone access to an unlimited wealth of knowledge. More recently, as social online media have flourished, there is an even greater rate of participation. With that, curiously, has been a...

Featured on Current.com

Bob was interviewed at Current.com (Al Gore’s social news/networking site) for the Bridge2Science project. Here is an excerpt: So, you’re a journalist, a news blogger or maybe a freelance writer, and you’re trying to get an expert source for a story...

Information Week features Twitter Vote Report analysis

Information Week was kind enough to pick up our analysis of the Twitter Vote Report. K.C. Jones writes: The Twitter Vote Report was subject to human judgment and technological error, according to two bloggers from Reno, Nev., who analyzed the network. Bob Conrad, a...

Twitter Vote Report: An analysis

Twitter Vote Report: An analysis My colleague Ryan Jerz and I conducted a study after the 2008, which looked at the Twitter Vote Report. Read it here: http://twurl.nl/7edve8

New Video: Firefighting sheep

The sheep are back grazing cheatgrass in the hills of Carson City, Nevada. Ann Bollinger from Carson City Parks and Open Space discusses the grazing project and how targeted grazing can be used to help manage invasive weeds and protect homes from wildfires. This is an...