Lablogatórios: Science dispersion in Brazil

Carlos Hotta & Atila Iamarino

http://lablogatorios.com.br

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23 blogs since August 2008http://lablogatorios.com.br

Science education in Brazil

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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006

http://www.oecd.org/

Science interest in BrazilWhat is your interest in the following topics?

Ministry of Science and Technology, 2007

Science interest in BrazilWhy are you not interested in Science?

Ministry of Science and Technology, 2007

Blogs in Brazil

Technorati State of Blogosphere, 2008Who is the brazilian blogger?, 2008

BlogBlogs: about 200k blogs and 120k users

HistoryOct /07 – Brontosaurus in my Garden and Horizontal Transfer are lauched

Fev/08 – dauting question: when we will have a strong brazilian science blogosphere that will support an initiative like ScienceBlogs?

Mar/08 – breakthrough: what if we use an initiative like ScienceBlogs to generate a stronger brazilian science blogosphere?

Aug/08 –Lablogatórios is lauched!

Some of our numbers

23 blogs selected for frequency, quality and originality of the posts

Bloggers from 22 to 57 years old (median, 28 years)

4 PhDs, 3 PhD students, 7 M.Sci/MBA, 3 graduates, 2 undergraduates e 2 others

17 men and 4 women

4007 posts, 8798 comments

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http://lablogatorios.com.br/ensaioshttp://lablogatorios.com.br/bigbanghttp://lablogatorios.com.br/uoleoSome of our blogs

http://lablogatorios.com.br/rastrodecarbonohttp://lablogatorios.com.br/brontossauros

Is it working?Science is a Category in the Best Blog Brazil award (7 of 10 finalists were Labrothers)

“50 brazilians blogs you shouldn’t miss” by Época Magazine (circulation: 700k)

Brontosaurus has triplicate its audience after the launch of Lablogs

In Dec/08 there was the first Brazilian Science Blogs conference

Coming soon...