A apresentação do Lablogatórios no ScienceOnline'09 (17 e 18 de janeiro 2009). Lablogatórios presentation at ScienceOnline'09 (17th and 18th january 2009)

1. Lablogatórios: Science dispersion in Brazil Carlos Hotta & Atila Iamarino http://lablogatorios.com.br

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

3. Science education in Brazil 1. 29. 52. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 http://www.oecd.org/

4. Science interest in Brazil What is your interest in the following topics? Ministry of Science and Technology, 2007

5. Science interest in Brazil Why are you not interested in Science? Ministry of Science and Technology, 2007

6. Blogs in Brazil Technorati State of Blogosphere, 2008 Who is the brazilian blogger?, 2008 BlogBlogs: about 200k blogs and 120k users

7. History Oct /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!

8. 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 12 3 1 1 1 2 1 1

9. Some of our blogs http://lablogatorios.com.br/ensaios http://lablogatorios.com.br/bigbang http://lablogatorios.com.br/uoleo http://lablogatorios.com.br/rastrodecarbono http://lablogatorios.com.br/brontossauros

10. 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

11. Coming soon...