Belated first Blogversary

I missed the first anniversary of this blog (I imported an older blog, so the archives actually go back to 2004, but I started here on April 24, 2007.
Missing your own blog’s birthday. Talk about pathetic.

Genomicron moves to ScientificBlogging

Genomicron has moved from blogger to the Scientific Blogging network.

ERV moves to ScienceBlogs

After running into some problems with blogger, ERV has moved to ScienceBlogs.  While she hasn’t supplied any details, apparently it was more than a glitch at blogger
I view it as malicious behavior, though I sympathize with the Blogger folks and the sheer volume of crap they have to deal with, so no hard feelings.

Genomicron’s first blogversary

Genomicron, T. Ryan Gregory’s blog, turned one today.  Here’s hoping for many more years of great science blogging.

Sub-100,000

My Technorati rank has finally broken the 100,000 mark! Woo-hoo.  (Funny how it happens when I am in bit of a dry spell in terms of blogging.)

I would like to thank the Academy,…

In recognition for my singular achievements* in blogging, that most distinguished authority on all things bloggy, Mike O’Risal of Hyphoid Logic has named me to Knights of the Hyphoid Logic Realm and awarded me the highly prestigious “E for Excellence” award.

One of the benefits of having been bestowed this honour is the ability to bestow [...]

Bloggers win Polk Award - congrats to TPM

TalkingPointsMemo won the George Polk Award for legal reporting for their coverage of the US Attorneys scandal.  In the words of Will Bunch at Attytood:
The George Polk Awards are kind of like the Golden Globes of American journalism . Not as well known as those Oscars of the news business, the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk [...]

Benefits of Science Blogging

Apparently the benefits of science blogging are substantially greater than I had ever imagined: it serves a foil against speeding tickets, accusations of being bad in bed, priests and thesis advisers!  (I wish I had known that when I was a grad student.)
H/T PZ Myers and Chris Rowan.

Fired for blogging

CNN reportedly fired producer Chez Pazienza for blogging. Scary.
Source: Terry Heaton, via TPM

Blogging ethics

Janet Stemwedel (Adventures in Ethics and Science) discusses the ethics that should guide science bloggers.  Since I had just rebranded my original blog as a blog about blogging, it seems like the perfect time to plumb the issue.  Surprising coincidence?  Probably not - Stemwedel’s posts come from the Science Blogging Conference, while my decision was [...]