The police chief of Austin Texas has become annoyed at pseudonymous bloggers and commenters, and plans to investigate, seek search warrants subpoenas, or sue for libel if this asshatery does not stop now. The chief says:

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August was quite a month for blogging. I wrote a slightly higher than average number of posts (just shy of 300), relatively few of peer reviewed work, but a larger than average number of original pieces (some revised from earlier work). My count of apparent readers and hits has been going up all summer, and…

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Through a strange twist of fate, we have discovered this early version of Science Blogs. Have a look! I had commented on Facebook that I had run out of things to do on the Internet. So John Wilkins suggested I have a look at the Internet Archives, I suppose so I could do it all…

An anonymous blogger using a blogger.com account created a site called “Skanks in NYC” on which he said obnoxious and offensive things about Liskula Cohen, a former Vogue (etc.) cover girl. A NY Supreme Court judge has ruled that Google (owner of blogger.com) will provide Cohen with whatever identifying info it has about this blogger.…

A pseudonymous blogger by the name of Elisha Strom has been locked up by Charlottesville police and is being held on rather shaky charges for the contents of her blog. Her last post: “Uh-oh, They’re here..” Elisha Strom, who appears unable to make the $750 bail, was arrested outside Charlottesville on July 16 when police…

I’ve been doing a lot of web carnivals lately, and you may wonder why. The reason: No reason. It just worked out that way. But none of that matters… what I really want to tell you is about Nate’s regular posting on the Nature Blog Network in which he lists all the upcoming deadlines for…

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It’s happening!!! At 7:00 PM eastern time Science Blogs Dot Com bloggers who have gotten the memo will STOP BLOGGING and about one hour later the Scienceblogs.com system will be placed on life support for a Major Operation. During this time you will be able to read the blog, but at some point commenting will…

One blogger is busily defining group membership, another blogger is striving for continued credibility in the face of erosion of that credibility, another blogger does not know that blogger’s place, and two bloggers are acting like those chicks in the TV commercial where they are buying gas and ciggs and suddenly turn into some kind…

I just got word of the impending release of an excellent podcast series out of Canada. As soon as it is out I’ll let you know. The first set of stories will interest you, and includes an interview with PZ Myers. The second set will include an interview with Yours Truly. But other than those…

This is kinda scary so I put it below the fold…

Pursuant to … pursuits … I am once again culling old posts for classic items to repost for you now and then this month. I need a breather, and that is how I’m going to get it. Sadly, or alternatively, happily, two years ago in July we were in South Africa, so I’ve got nothing…

A Blog Around the Clock is doing interviews with participants in the ScienceOnline-Oh-Nine conference in North Carolina last winter. Today, he did me, here. In the interview, I reveal many secrets about my blogging and stuff. So please, if you read it, don’t tell anybody.

Please have a look at, and join or follow the Nature Blog Network. The Nature Blog Network has a facebook thingie you can join. Are you my Facebook Friend? You can do that here. I’m @gregladen on twitter. Follow me. Within a few days, I’ll notice and I’ll follow you. I promise. Don’t tell twitter…

It all started with a joke by my friend Monica. Question: “How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?” Answer: “That’s not funny!” Sometimes when I’m writing on my blog, I’m speaking to every reader. Sometimes I’m speaking to a subset of readers. Sometimes I’m speaking to just one or two…

May was, of course, the month of The Big News. May was my lowest month in terms of productivity in quite some time, with only last January and last August being similar, with a mere 210 posts. This was mainly due to me working extra hours outside of work on a couple of big projects.…

Syl Jones speaks out. It’s great to be anonymous on the blogosphere. We don’t need no rules, no names, and no real accountability, neither. It’s great. This is just like it was in the Wild West. It’s a virtual democracy. People can vote verbally in this marketplace of ideas. What’s on sale in this marketplace?…

That would be the Quiche Moraine Launch Party. Why a launch party months after launching? Ah… well, no reason really. We just wanted to make sure the blog really existed before we did anything drastic. This is a BYOM (bring your own money, we ain’t providin’ nothing) party. The idea is a simple informal get…

The blog 3QD will start to award four annual blog prizes, and the first prize is open for nominations now. I believe nomination will be accepted until midnight on June 1st, so get over there now and enter your choices. …the first place award will be called the “Top Quark,” and will include a cash…

The following is a repost of a Guest Post by Stephanie Zvan of Almost Diamonds. Background On February 26, Anonymous Coward at Bayblab suggested that popular ScienceBloggers like PZ Myers (Pharyngula) needed more science content in order to be counted as a science blog. In the first comment on that post, DrugMonkey pointed out that…