Re: Your Cattle Call for Science Writers
Subject: Re: Your Cattle Call for Science Writers
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 10/14/10, 21:11
To: Chris David <bonsai5966@yahoo.com>

Chris-

Thanks for getting in touch. You're certainly qualified for this, and I found your writing on DKos to be of very high quality. You're occasionally a bit loose with punctuation but that's no problem as I'll be doing an edit on everyone's first piece and can give you a couple of quick pointers.

Send me a short list of the fields you'd be interested in writing about and I'll put you down as a writer and will eventually pair you with a scientist of compatible background.

I'll have my associate Clark Robinson send you some additional information about Project PM and our fundamental goals, which involve the development and promotion of improved methods of collaboration and information flow. We have a number of documents you might find interesting, and our more active participants tend to congregate in our new IRC channel which itself may be accessed at irc.freenode.net, #projectpm (I recommend Xchat if you're new to IRC, but Clark will send along a short guide including other methods of getting on).

Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks again for participating in this program.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Chris David <bonsai5966@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Barrett,

I saw your diary today on DK about your work in improving the quality of science based journalism.  I'm interested.  I only have a few minutes to dash this off before I head out the door, so I apologize for the brevity of this note.

Quick CV:

B.S Aerospace Engineering, U.S Naval Academy
MBA, Loyola College
Naval Officer, Civil Engineer Corps for 8 years.
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I've also spent many years in the semiconductor field, as well as in Electrical and Mechanical engineering.  I also have 3 years in a Chemical Engineering R&D environment with a large semiconductor company.

Here's a couple of my recent diaries on polling, as an example of my more technical writing, (I also do a lot of snark, which is probably not what you're looking for).



Let me know if your interested.

Best Regards,

Chris David






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Regards,

Barrett Brown
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