A Blog Around The Clock

There are some excellent news from Seed overlords. They will add to our DonorsChoose educational action for science and math programs for underfunded schools. You can see the donation thermometer on the sidebar of about 20 blogs here, including mine. We are doing excellent - my readers have already donated $342.26 and other bloggers are also doing fine - we have two weeks to go.

Now Seed bosses have announced that they will match our donations, up to $10,000. So, if all the bloggers combined raise $10, 000 or more, SEED will donate an additional ten grand! You will be able to see regular updates on the drive on Adventures in Ethics and Science, including the complete list of participating bloggers. And the drawing for prizes will be on July 1st.

On a less charitable and more egotistic note, noon today marks exactly one week since the grand opening of the new SEED Scienceblogs homepage and the introduction of all the new blogs here and, how can I put it humbly, I had a really good start here. On the first day - Friday afternoon, I got 564 visits (by Sitemeter). Weekend saw an expected slump: 354 and 401 on two days starting with S. Monday brought in a nice 752. But Tuesday was a killer - a post of mine spread over Digg, Fark and Stumbleupon lists and brought in astonishing 25,986 readers - I printed out that day's pie-chart from Google Analytics in order to frame it and put it on the wall because it is a unique day in history, unlikely to ever be repeated: my blog brought in more traffic to SEED scienceblogs than Pharyngula (PZ was doing something scary with his tentacles there, but I managed to escape in a cloud of ink). On Wednesday the traffic started dropping off somewhat to 4,491 and Thursday saw 2,064. So far today, I've got 664 for a grand weekly total of 35,370! Not bad at all! Keep coming back - there will be more cool posts here every day.

On a less happy note, Serbia&Montenegro lost to Argentina 6:0! I am glad I did not watch it - it would have been heart-breaking!