Last Post on Elin Oxenhielm

This will be my last post on the Elin Oxenhielm story. My interest was whether the traditional media would pick up what was said about this in weblogs, and they have. At least, the stories told in traditional and new media now are coherent, which is best exemplified by the article in Nature, published today. The article explains the problem, Oxenhielm’s solution, and why it’s not a proof.

I think that the latest article distributed by Swedish news agency TT, this article in Nature, and the article due tomorrow on the website of New Scientist will reverberate for a while in media, traditional and new.

But I’m still interested in the general question of what the blogosphere needs to match traditional media. Specialists is one thing it needs, as is evident from this story. (One thing I have thought about is if it will ever be possible for a weblogger to easily get in touch with people and interview them. In this case it seems as if the journal Nonlinear Analysis have denied to talk to anyone but big news agencies or prestigious scientific journals.)