Well, the first five-day plan, all-politics blogging, kinda happened all on Echidne of the Snakes where one post got 120+ comments (mostly nasty) while the same post here got 5 nice comments. So, you pretty much missed out on all the fun if you just came here.
The second five-day plan, all about clocks is now officially over. I could not resist, of course, jumping in with short posts on other topics every now and then, which was probably refreshing for those not too heavily into nitty-gritty chronobiology.
So, tell me, do you like 5-day plans or not? And if so, what should be the next week's theme?
I was thinking about doing a week of book reviews since I have read a bunch of good stuff recently (and not so recently). As you know, I like to do book reviews NYRB-style, using a book review as a pretext and excuse to grind my own axes. So far, I have posted (or re-posted) only my reviews of Biased Embryos and Evolution by Wallace Arthur, Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden, George Lakoff's Moral Politics and E.J.Graff's What Is Marriage For? and Five Fists of Science by Matt Fraction and Steven Sanders.
I could re-post the old reviews of "Changing Minds" by Howard Gardner, "Collapse" by Jared Diamond, "The Postman" by David Brin, Max Barry's "Jennifer Government", Greg Bear's "Darwin's Radio" and Darwin's Children", "The Sex Lives Of Teenagers" by Lynn Ponton and "The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition" by Michael Tomasello. I could also re-post (and update) my "favourite" lists on politics, science and clocks/sleep.
Then, I could sit down and write about "Intuition" by Allegra Goodman, "Ira Foxglove" by Thomas McMahon, "Omnivore's Dillema" by Michael Pollan, "Institutionalized" by Fred Smith and Joe Schmoe and"Holy Cows & Hog Heaven" by Joel Salatin. If I still had time and energy, I could go back in time and review books I read earlier but never reviewed, e.g., "The Wimp Factor" by Stephen Ducat", "Marriage - A History" by Stephanie Coontz, "Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney (I may want to wait until the paperback arrives, though), "Superpatriotism" by Michael Parenti, etc.
What do you think?
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Anarchist! ;)
Seriously, Brin and Bear would be interesting...as would Coontz (one I want to read at some point) and Tomasello.
One vote "For" is in. Thus, as I was already biased towards the positive outcome, I, very scientifically, declare the poll closed and I'll start writing and re-writing my book reviews!