Blogging scholarship--vote today!

By tsmith on November 5, 2006.

There are scholarships out there for just about everything nowadays--including blogging. Scienceblogs' own Shelley of Retrospectacle is one of this year's finalists; head over to check out the other finalists and vote for your favorite! (And be quick about it; voting ends today!)

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