ScienceBlogs Moving Up in the World!

Technorati, an online blog rating system, has rated ScienceBlogs in the top 50 most popular blogs in the world! Woohoo! We're currently #33, and yes, we've even beaten out Cute Overload.

Now, please could you make ScienceBlogs a "favorite" blog? Or, if you're feeling mighty generous, you could even favorite Retrospectacle! Go here to do it! Just type in a blog to search for it, and then favorite it. :)

The word on high from SEED is this: in order to make ScienceBlogs truly the biggest conversation about science, we need to get the word out. Now, I'm usually not so shamelessly self-promoting, but I believe we've got a nice thing going on here, and want to help.

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