The Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) reports on a new study released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project that documents Web surfing habits. Not surprisingly, video sharing sites like YouTube are seeing a strong increase in viewership, and a Pew survey found last spring that more of these folks are looking at educational content when they visit these sites. Many institutions are taking advantage of this to make content available that’s been created by and about their faculty, staff and students. Duke has done this as well - visit the Duke University News channel on YouTube to see a variety of videos about faculty research, library activities, and other information about our campus.

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Coturnix, at “A Blog Around the Clock” discusses the science blogs at Duke. He writes “Duke University,after years of being behind the curve, is now striving mightily to establish itself as a leader in online science communication. As a recent news article shows, the school is actively encouraging its students to keep blogs and make podcasts.” He links to and encourages exploration of the Duke blogs currently available and predicts that Duke has a chance to become “cutting edge”.

Coturnix is a prolific blogger about biology (especially chronobiology), education, time, politics and blogging. He is one of the original science bloggers, a group of more than 60 science blogs sponsored (but not controlled by) the Seed Media Group, who cover a wide range of scientific topics and everything else. I spend way too much time at ScienceBlogs.

Coturnix has recently joined PLoS-ONE as the Online Community Manager. PLoS ONE is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publisher of reports on primary research from any scientific discipline by the Public Library of Science (PLoS).

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