Over on Freethoughtblogs, Thunderf00t makes the following assertion about the subject matter addressed by that blog network: The disproportionate amount of attention [is given] to sexism compared to other issues. He does not assert this as a hypothesis, but rather, as a fact. But, Imma turn it back into a hypothesis and assail it with…

With the changeover to National Geographic Branding, we’ve reconfigured the Google Analytics account. In the old days (last month) all of Scienceblogs shared a single account, which made it interesting (we could spy on each other’s blogs) and annoying, because if you are only a subdomain on one account there are a lot of things…

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 about blog sites that bloggers can see of generating controversy…

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 header and the title text of a given blog post should…

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 wanna-be terrorist* who targets scientists, atheists, skeptics, and kin. PZ…

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 that is currently circulating is not entirely accurate, but not…