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Category: Blogging
Blogging controversy can generate a lot of comments, but it is often said that this also generates a lot of "hits" (page views) and sometime we bloggers are accused by people (often commenters) who don't blog themselves and don't have access to the secret data...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:16 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
The distance between the top of the page and the title of any given blog post ... i.e., the header, banner ads, bread crumbs, etc. etc. ... should be as small as possible given the constraints of the blog. The title text in the...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:29 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospherics
When we read about human evolution, we eventually get to the part about humans becoming "modern" (i.e., reaching the Platonic ideal, the End of the Linean Line, The upper middle part Catechism's Great Chain of Being, the Archetype of the Repressed Middle Class, and all...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:40 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogospherics
Before joining Scienceblogs.com, I blogged independently at "Evolution ... not just a theory anymore." That was a cool name for a blog, but I didn't transfer the name to Scienceblogs because there were already a whole bunch of blogs with "Evolution" in the name. There...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
I am intellectually, but not viscerally, worried about Dennis Markuze. He does not scare me in the way that scary things do, I have no limbic reaction to him, and never did. Except once, and I'll tell you about that below. Dennis Markuze is a...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:25 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
This is about Google's policy of only allowing "real" names for participants on Google+. Before I go into why this is evil, I want to point out without providing any details that I've already spotted dozens of pseudonymous people on Google+ that Google+ authorities have...
Posted by Greg Laden at 6:11 PM • 160 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Aves (birds)
The I and the Bird Carnival is Dead. Long live the ... well ... ah ... well, the I and the Bird Carnival is dead.
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:19 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
Did you recognize the National Geographic Theme Song? The new arrangement between National Geographic and Scienceblogs is now, like the proverbial cat, out of the bag, so I feel comfortable making a few brief remarks about it. As far as I can tell, the information...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:48 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Birthdays
PZ (or, as they call him in England, Pee-Zed) Myers was born on this day1 in the mid 20th century. Now that we've got that cleared up, let's talk about why it is important. PZ Myers visits Mike Haubrich (Born August 31st) and Greg Laden...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:32 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
Wikipedia has served as the substrate for the codification of certain interlocutory behaviors which in turn have subsequently become inappropriately fetishized conversational tics
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:51 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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