Skeptics of Carlos is a blog circle - with a slight difference.
First - we’d like to encourage Australian writers, first and foremost, on topics involving a critical look at psuedoscience and the paranormal. Overseas writers are more than welcome, but we’d prefer to primarily foreground Australian work.
Blog circles are well-known and enjoyable for getting messages out to similar groups. They inspire further research, garner knowledge from experts and enthusiasts and generally help out with blog audience numbers.
Skeptics of Carlos wants to take it a step further.
The Australian Skeptics site asks: ‘Write stuff. Get Published’
The only restrictions are that the material must have something to do with the aims and objectives of Australian Skeptics and must not expose us to legal action. Get writing.
Therefore, we would like to actively encourage all submissions to also
- co-submit every month to the Australian Skeptics website and/or Australian Skeptics Journal.
Furthermore, at the Wagga Wagga convention for the Australian Skeptics in 2008, Jayson Cooke of The Griffith University Society for Skeptics and Freethinkers suggested that writing for
- student magazines,
- street-press and
- college and university publications
would be a good way to get published in forums that reach like-minded audiences, educated and open-minded readers who wish to be challenged and perhaps be picked up by the younger years too. Since modern, popular culture and entertainment articles are printed in these magazines, it will also allow for a certain kinship with similar topics.
We think that taking blog posts beyond the blog-o-sphere and encouraging authors who contribute to the Skeptics of Carlos to take the step and get published in more than their own blog and ours.
We’ll be collecting suggested street-press and campus magazine details to help you get the word out in one of our forthcoming pages. We strongly encourage others on other sites to take a similar approach with their own writing projects.
We don’t guarantee publication nor that your audience is going to be that easy to capture - but it’s a start. Something that Randi did back in the 1980s sets us a standard - that getting the message out takes some initiative. Hope you join us for the ride.
1 response so far ↓
naontiotami // May 6, 2008 at 8:55 pm
What a great idea! One of the main problems with blogging is that sometimes your target audience just doesn’t go onto the Internet and search for things that they already accept without much critical thinking. Also, people who read blogs usually have blogs of themselves, so your audience just becomes people who know most of what you’re talking about anyway.
Well done, and I’d be happy to get involved.
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