Announcing the Carl Sagan memorial blog-a-thon
Next month, December 20, 2006 will mark the tenth anniversary Carl Sagan's passing. In his honor, I am organizing a special memorial "blog-a-thon" among Sagan's fans throughout the blogosphere. If you're a Sagan fan with a blog, you can participate by posting something related to him on or near that date. Read or reread a Sagan book and review it; discuss cool things that you've done that's been influenced by him; pontificate on one of the many topics he treated (SETI, astronomy, critical thinking, the history of science, human intelligence....), or post about something completely surprising. Contact me by email or by leaving a comment, and then when the date approaches, I will create a meta-post that links to all the stuff people are doing, providing a network of the participating bloggers.
A list of Sagan stuff online that may be a source of ideas.
Carl's son Nick Sagan on the blog-a-thon.
Publicity for the blog-a-thon includes Cornell University's Chronicle Online, The Ithaca Journal, digg, bOING bOING, and countless blogs. Welcome, everybody, and thanks to all who have publicized it!
See also another very cool new project, Celebrating Sagan; if you're not a blogger, you can contribute your memories and stuff via email.
Update: the meta-post is here!
A list of Sagan stuff online that may be a source of ideas.
Carl's son Nick Sagan on the blog-a-thon.
Publicity for the blog-a-thon includes Cornell University's Chronicle Online, The Ithaca Journal, digg, bOING bOING, and countless blogs. Welcome, everybody, and thanks to all who have publicized it!
See also another very cool new project, Celebrating Sagan; if you're not a blogger, you can contribute your memories and stuff via email.
Update: the meta-post is here!
Comments
Best bet is to just check out the "Carl Sagan" label of my blog ...
Excellent idea. I have posted an entry on my blog honoring Dr. Sagan, and will leave it up through the holidays.
Great blog, BTW.
http://khazell1.blogspot.com
Great idea!
carl sagan label on my blog and his contributions affect me on a daily basis.
thank you for organizing the blog-a-thon.
theatarithief.blogspot.com
I feel a marathon "Cosmos" viewing is in order...
http://www.evileyebrow.com
-Subspace
I have tried my hardest to provide tributes to do Carl justice. You can read them here to see whether I've succeeded!:
http://www.neforum2.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,10855.0.html
http://www.teessideonline.net/ftopic2332.php
http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=909
and also at AOL Winamp/Shoutcast - hopefully some web stations will pick the story up:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=262082
and from my sites at:
http://northeastradio.co.uk/index.html
http://northeastradio.co.uk/North_East_Radio_Revisited_Miscellaneous_Links_Page.html
Thanks to you as well, Joel. My thoughts may be found .
Thanks to you as well, Joel. My thoughts may be found .
[http://chadsblog.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/look-again-at-that-dot/]
(Now with the right URL!)
Thanks to you as well, Joel. My thoughts may be found here.
[I'd appreciate it if you could delete my comments above, as I'm unable to clean them up. I've created a blogger account so that I might edit my posts in the future]
I have a blog that I post all sorts of misc. stuff on, although I've been on a science kick lately and I will put up a Sagan-related post tonight or tomorrow.
It will be up at http://larae.net
Mine will be up tomorrow morning at Coyote Mercury
Constance Griffin
Fountain Hills Az.
lessons i've learned
Thank you for this idea.
Recordando a Carl Sagan...Remembering Carl Sagan
Thank you for doing this!
http://samharrelson.com/2006/12/20/in-memory-of-carl-sagan/
I have a post about his time at the University of Chicago and Ryerson Observatory here
--EMILY DICKINSON Poem Number 1741.
Unrepeatable Sagan !!
A little video i made, a bit old but still there for the viewing.
http://www.culodemalasiento.com/?p=156
A few personal words ans a recreation of that funny horoscope comparison he once did for the cosmos series.
This is a great project. Thanks for hosting it!
The Public Me: Remembering the "People's Astronomer"
I am a cosmologist from Rome, Italy. My contribution was to post a translation in italian of Carl's Pale Blue Dot reflections:
Quel puntino blu chiaro
Ciao!
I'm looking forward to the compiled work.
Neil McDonnell
I have just posted some memories from watching COSMOS in Brazilian television in 1982-1983
http://rtietz.blogspot.com/2006/12/ave-carl-sagan.html
http://rocketdungeon.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-in-billion.html
http://www.volkskrantblog.nl/bericht/94565
Some memories from the Cosmos series, which was broadcasted in Holland beginning of the '80s, and of course his books. It really influenced my choise of carreer.
And, oh coincidence, I was living in the US at the time of his last television appearance (beginning of December 2006), which was quite a shock because he was really looking very frail and ill at that time. But the twinkle in his eyes and his smile were still there.
http://rocketdungeon.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-in-billion.html
Paul
You can find my humble offering here: For Carl Sagan.
-ChrissyOne
Many layers of news
Peace and love to Annie and the kids.
Dave Schlom
http://swankchambers.blogspot.com
http://jalanerwine.blogspot.com
http://jalanerwine.blogspot.com
http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/12/sagan_blogathon_let_there_be_l.php
http://joelschlosberg.blogspot.com/2006/11/announcing-carl-sagan-memorial-blog.html
Stuart Atkinson, UK
http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/Cumbrian-Sky/entries/2006/12/20/remembering-sagan.../2254
Stuart Atkinson, UK
http://www.merriehaskell.com/journal/archives/2006_12.html#000824
Remembering Carl Sagan
http://witchesandscientists.blogspot.com/2006/12/carl-sagan-blog-thon.html
http://anothermonkey.blogspot.com/2006/12/carl-sagan.html
Carl Sagan, un pastor de la ciencia
Hugs!
Humanity is damn lucky to had him.
Thanks, Joel.
Here's a link to my tribute. Thank you, Joel, for organizing this.
Mixed in the lesson in fact was always the advice to make intelligent observation with a healthy dose of skepticism. That advice has stayed with me throughout the succeeding (and successful) decades of my professional life. The lesson learned was not to always seek truth with a VERY open mind. That the avenue yet to be explored may in fact hold the truth even if contrary to then accepted "belief".
http://bodhisattvamama.com/?p=105
-mama
His vision lives on to this day.
http://www.ne-forum.co.uk
I have been a longtime admirer of the late, great, American astronomer, space scientist, polymath, internationalist, universal man and 'man of the Universe' Professor Carl Sagan!.
In fact, he has now become as much of a hero to me as our own great veteran astromomer Sir Patrick Moore in Britain, even though they are such different personalities!.
You may like to know that I have set up a tribute page to him on my website: www.astrospaceweb.com
(just click on 'MESSAGE' on the navigation bar).
All astro and space enthusiasts are welcome to visit my site and contribute their comments on Carl Sagan in it's discussion forum!. Best Wishes, Bruce Woods
http://www.tolive4ever.com
http://www.tolive4ever.com
Thanks, Carl for being such an inspirational scientist.
And memories were a lane
We would walk right
up to Heaven
And bring you back again.....
No farewell words were spoken
No time to say goodbye
You were gone
before we knew it
And only God knows why......
Our hearts still ache in sadness
And secret tears still flow
What it meant to lose you
No on will ever know.....
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