Hello to all writers on Physics!
After gaining some experience in curating the @math-trail, I shall now also be running the @physics-trail. Some of you will already know me, @rycharde, from the math-trail and my aim is to raise the profile of Physics article writers and bring a little organisation to the subject of Physics. My own background is in both Physics and Mathematics and the history and philosophy of both subjects.
Physics Tag
The first thing I notice is that there are a lot of physics articles that use a variety of tags. Steemit allows for up to five tags and each article appears in each of the chosen tag-streams.
However, chainBB has a forum structure and tags work slightly differently on there. The first tag you use is very important because it defines which forum your posts appear in. So, using #science first and #physics second means that your article will appear in the Science forum but not in the Physics one. If you have never looked at chainBB then go and look at the Physics forum to see what it looks like now. Compare that to the current Mathematics forum.
I personally like the forum structure as the most discussed articles stay near the top of each forum. It also means someone interested in Physics can see all available articles in one place - but only those with #physics as the first tag. Also, the tag order makes no difference to how your article appears on Steemit - it will, given the above example, show in both #science and #physics streams.
A Curated Physics Magazine
Every 3 or 4 days, I publish what I have called the Math-Trail Magazine (N.10 here); it is a curated list of some of the best writing from the most recent days. I would like to do the same for Physics; this is especially important given that Physics articles tend to be spread around. The second aim of the new Physics-Trail Magazine is to find new writing talent. If you were writing about Physics but gave up because of lack of readers, this is your opportunity to try some new content and get it promoted.
The third aim of the Magazine and the Physics-Trail itself is to create a sense of a Physics community. This means getting to know and following other authors, bouncing ideas around and answering questions. I hope that at some point we will see more students who actually ask questions, something like Stackexchange, but until then we can post educational articles that we think will be of interest. But Physics now plays a crucial role in many other sciences that the school demarcation of physics, chemistry and biology makes no sense in real science. I am therefore happy to promote articles on subjects such as biophysics and neurophysics and any other leading-edge science where physics plays a crucial role.
Follow @physics-trail
So, the very first things will be a lot of follows! Please follow @physics-trail to keep up to date with news and curated content and any new initiatives. Also, if you would like @physics-trail to follow you then just add a comment below and I will do so.
At the start, this @physics-trail account is quite small, so do not expect huge upvotes however, over time, my comments and resteems and curated posts will help all Physics content creators.
Look forward to reading all your articles.
Welcome!
