tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post6240276040722406232..comments2023-11-17T08:28:34.015+00:00Comments on The m-factor: More epic "journalism" on nanotechnologyWilhelmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08120996976638555064noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-13317674267437298782008-10-02T10:40:00.000+01:002008-10-02T10:40:00.000+01:00..you mean in Dagbladet, or in a real paper?..you mean in Dagbladet, or in a real paper?Wilhelmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120996976638555064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-12471656174761033992008-10-02T10:20:00.000+01:002008-10-02T10:20:00.000+01:00LOLYou should have considered a carreer in journal...LOL<BR/>You should have considered a carreer in journalism...<BR/>;-)Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07766751546432262892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-59394457503040047832008-10-02T09:58:00.000+01:002008-10-02T09:58:00.000+01:00And we all know that you have to be french to thin...<I>And we all know that you have to be french to think 12 Monkeys are any good...</I><BR/><BR/>I see you caught my not-so-subtle diss<BR/><BR/><I>As I said, it is a acceptable feature on the clean room, but the header just completly ruins it. Not much content on nanoTech, though.</I><BR/><BR/>The "Conclusion" section would have read: "It's cool and important to have super-clean rooms because for whatever reason they're necessary for nanotechnology, which is cool for reasons I don't understand and might provide important technology on an undefined but prolonged timescale"<BR/><BR/>The "Abstract" would've been: "Don't fart in clean rooms because then they wouldn't be clean anymore and that would make it harder to fabricate my personal jetpack some time in the future although I don't know why"Wilhelmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120996976638555064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-11297777284555046492008-10-02T09:45:00.000+01:002008-10-02T09:45:00.000+01:00Of which I found preciously little.I think we can ...<I>Of which I found preciously little.</I><BR/><BR/>I think we can agree the he wrote about all the stuff he understood from the tour...<BR/><BR/>Seriously, as a piece on the cleanroom, and makes a relevant comparison with an operating room, which most people think is "super clean". It goes on a bit about NTNUs plans for building more clean rooms, that we have other rooms in Norway cleaner then Nanolab's, but not of that scale. A bit about dresscode in a cleanroom etc. <BR/>What it does not, however, is say say much about nano-technology. Except it's small; the footprint on the moon is as good picture as any, I would guess, but that's the only useful info about nanoVT (or is that nanoST in English?). ;-)<BR/><BR/>As I said, it is a acceptable feature on the clean room, but the header just completly ruins it. Not much content on nanoTech, though.Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07766751546432262892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-44972324404583143542008-10-02T09:24:00.000+01:002008-10-02T09:24:00.000+01:00This piece: 12 monkeys, 45 minutes.And we all know...<I>This piece: 12 monkeys, 45 minutes.</I><BR/><BR/>And we all know that you have to be french to think 12 Monkeys are any good...<BR/>:-)Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07766751546432262892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-34215906638749381192008-10-02T08:26:00.000+01:002008-10-02T08:26:00.000+01:00If he absolutly needed a funny headerWhat's wrong ...<I>If he absolutly needed a funny header</I><BR/><BR/>What's wrong with "Knock, knock" jokes?<BR/><BR/><I>See, I told you those nano-robots that can change structures on a molecular level are good! But do you listen? Nooooo.....</I><BR/><BR/>LOL..why you gotta put me on blast like that?Wilhelmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120996976638555064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-27296592166564644772008-10-02T08:25:00.000+01:002008-10-02T08:25:00.000+01:00Actually, I didn't think it was half bad that piec...<I>Actually, I didn't think it was half bad that piece (for a Dagbladet article on science, that is).</I><BR/><BR/>You might be right. Could be I got too put off by the title, even though I read the piece thrice yesterday, scouring for content.<BR/><BR/>Of which I found preciously little.<BR/><BR/>You know that joke that if you put 1000 monkeys with 1000 typewriters in a room, then given enough time, you'd get "King Lear".<BR/><BR/>This piece: 12 monkeys, 45 minutes.Wilhelmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08120996976638555064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5654649659503386270.post-58808501262625401702008-10-02T07:42:00.000+01:002008-10-02T07:42:00.000+01:00Long comment, so I'll start off with an executive ...Long comment, so I'll start off with an executive summary on my view of the article:<BR/>Header - Really bad<BR/>Body - Acceptable<BR/><BR/>Actually, I didn't think it was half bad that piece (for a Dagbladet article on science, that is). Yes, it may not be written with the up and coming academic with a substacial number of publications within the field of nanotechnology in mind, but I'm willing to forgive Dagbladet that, since they have reserved the Rocky cartoon for that target group. :-D<BR/><BR/>I read the piece as a feature on the cleanroom at NTNU Nanolab, and not so much about the student tour. It does try to explain how clean it is, that it is very useful, expensive (without hinting about a wasting money) and some of the instrumentation. The result is pretty decent, yes, I'm sure it could be done better by somebody else, but I've seen a lot worse.<BR/><BR/>But what bothers me is the header with the "fart" joke in there. WTF? It ruins the whole piece. If he absolutly needed a funny header, he could have said "Don't sneeze in here" with a picture of the engineer with the cold and mouth cover. It would at least been sligthly relevant to the piece and could have worked as a hook. The fart bit I can't see mentioned in the article at all. But it would have been even better if he, a professional journalist that writes for a living, could come up with a header that was interesting and gave a hint about the content of the article. Is asking too much?<BR/><BR/><I>...nanotech can solve everything from disease to global warming to providing unlimited energy sources.</I><BR/><BR/>See, I told you those nano-robots that can change structures on a molecular level are good! But do you listen? Nooooo.....<BR/>;-)Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07766751546432262892noreply@blogger.com