No Se Nada

Hello readers -

January 11 is the one-year anniversary of the start of ScienceBlogs (my first SB post is here). It's been a very interesting project, one that I was quite flattered to have been invited to join as an original member (there were 14 of us then). Through the past year we've seen SB grow from fourteen bloggers and no technorati ranking, to about 50 bloggers and a combined ranking near #30.

The project for me, however, has grown a bit beyond what I'm comfortable with. The SB fiefdom originally felt like a community to me, but now it feels like a city and I'm not a city boy. It's become a bit too busy, too fast-paced, too impersonal for this redneck.

Because of the nature of the project, I have felt some pressure from the start to post continuously, every day or twice a day. But if you're a regular reader, I suppose you've realized by now that I've seriously scaled back writing over the past month and a half. Such is the nature of my feast-famine work style: I need to be able to take a mental holiday for a month or two in order to balance out the two week periods where all I do is work and push out two papers and 148 posts. I feel a bit constrained from doing that here at SB. (It's not the environment that Seed created - the Seed overlords have been great - it's just where the project evolved to.)

So noting all that, January 11 is going to be my last day on ScienceBlogs. The archives will remain, including your very good (and occasionally very bad, but usually very good) comments.

From here I'm returning to my roots. My main blogging home is going to be Prometheus, where I've already been posting occasionally for a year and a half, and which is going to be seriously revamped this spring. I'm also going to revive my original home, NoSeNada.org. NoSeNada is going to become much more personal, and I'm going to start writing more about wilderness, tracking, hunting, nature observation, mountain rescue, sports, and other topics. The difference will be that I don't expect anybody to read NoSeNada - it'll be more of a personal journal that happens to be public.

A couple more posts to come this week before the final post on Jan 11, so don't go away yet.

Thanks to all the readers who came in and stayed. Thanks to the Seed overlords for starting the project and bringing me in early. And thanks to all of you who have remembered (and occasionally reminded me and others) that blogging and commenting is not something that should be taken too seriously.

-k