Ch-ch-changes

Hey, everyone! The new ScienceBlogs main page has been launched, and the Seed nerd-kings have added a whole new crop of blogs here. Take a browse, you might discover some new favorites.

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I'm not completely crazy about the new ScienceBlogs front page, but then I used the old one mainly to browse through the blurbs for new postings. The categorial groupings at the bottom of the new main page would be more useful to me if I were more focused on specific topics. Fortunately, the old format is pretty well preserved in the "Last 24 Hours" button at the top of the Channels column on the left. I'm thinking of making that page my bookmark for ScienceBlogs instead of the new main page.