Comments on: More About the EurekAlert! Smackdown

By: Jacyntha Crawley

Jacyntha Crawley — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:01:13 +0000

I cam across EurekaAlert by chance. Having read your blog and contacted http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/03/eurekalert_update.php
in person I shall now see if I get rejected! I might well be!

Yours very sincerely

Jacyntha Crawley
(international author)

By: Thomas A. Hart

Thomas A. Hart — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:16:33 +0000

I just noticed the comment on Sept. 18 about your moving up to no. 3 position on Google. That’s where I noticed your site now.
I’m sure I couldn’t get status as a journalist. I have on different occasions communicated with authors of research reported on Eurekalert and probably usually made them aware of their appearance there. Most replied and some clearly appreciated the input in one degree and another.
Thomas A. Hart, Tennessee Division of Geology
home tahart@bellsouth.net

By: J Fox

J Fox — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:41:24 +0000

Actually, now you are at number 3 in Google’s results for EurekAlert. Irony or ignominy?

By: mel

mel — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:24:37 +0000

Reveal on the Æsahættr post:

Just a little free association between the way EurekAlert discriminates in the release of embargoed information and the claim that some religions make of god … that god essentially does the same thing.

If your not on god’s approved list then you’ll just have to get god’s communications/EurekAlerts second hand–if at all.

IOW: EurekAlert is playing god.

By: Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD

Hsien Hsien Lei, PhD — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:20:19 +0000

Hey Greg, This is what it says on their registration page:

*a staff reporter, editor, or producer specializing in science, medicine, or technology issues
*a freelance writer, editor, or producer who regularly covers science, medicine, or technology issues
*a public information officer for a university, research institution, scientific organization or corporation

This is the only application you submit before getting dissed.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:47:16 +0000

But what do they say their criteria are? Are these stated at any point along the application process?

By: Does Advancing Product Advance Science? « Archaeoastronomy

Does Advancing Product Advance Science? « Archaeoastronomy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:20:03 +0000

[...] Does Advancing Product Advance Science? 15 03 2007 I’ve said I’m not writing, but I’m still reading. There’s a rumpus about accreditation for bloggers at Eurekalert! In an ideal world I’d want to re-write this to include references to later posts like More About the EurekAlert! Smackdown. It’s not going to happen for quite a while though, so I thought to post what I have while it’s still timely rather than wait till I can finish it. Stop, one way. Photo (cc) David Dennis. [...]