Category Archives: Housekeeping

Now that the DonorsChoose drive is officially over, and the prizes have been distributed, I can now place a link to my CafePress store on my sidebar (see right under the PayPal and Amazon.com buttons).

So, if you are thinking about cool presents for whichever holiday you may be celebrating in the near future, consider the beautiful ‘A Blog Around The Clock’ banner on a t-shirt or a coffee mug or a wall clock. Heck, if you really insist on having one on a thong, e-mail me and I can see what I can do about it….

This is the 4000th post on this blog. I wish they were all long, smart and thoughtful like this one….

WaterBlog: ask an aquatic biologist…


I Love Science, Really


What an untenured college professor shouldn’t be doing…


Marcus’ World


Before


Health Care Renewal


GoozNews

Sceadugenga


Common Sense


Photo of Nature by Kopernik


Star Stryder


Jayne’s Breast Cancer Blog


Quackometer


Daisy’s Dead Air


Mary Evelyn


Mestarr


Mechanically Separated Meat


TechRivet


The Indigestible


Jasiri

The Banana Peel Project


MOMocrats


BioBlog (NZ)


The Divinely Guided Boot of Upward Inspiration


ChemSpider Blog

The new channel landing pages are up and running. The photos on the landing pages will rotate on a weekly basis. The Sb overlords are always on the lookout for new images to appear there and our readers are a great source for such pictures.
So, you can have your images dispayed there as well. They say:

It’s not too hard: the image needs to be at least 465 pixels wide. Readers should send their photos to photos@scienceblogs.com. They should send only photos that they have the rights to (e.g, photos they have taken themselves), and they should include a line of text to the effect that we have permission to use their photo on ScienceBlogs. They should also add how they’d like to be credited, and whether they would like a link to appear along with the credit.
People can also send us links to Flickr pages, or tag a photo on Flickr with “Sb-homepage,” and we will find it. They should make sure that the photos are licensed under Creative Commons with an “attribution only” or a “share alike” license.
That’s it for the instructions. So what are we looking for? Science, nature, and technology photos–we’re casting a wide net. If there are identifiable people in the photo, we will need to have their permission to post the photo.

Go for it!

If you come here from the front page of Scienceblogs, you have probably noticed some changes. Instead of ten, there are now eight channels, and the latest 4 (instead of 3) posts in each category are highlighted. If you check the channels on the left side-bar you will see that the landing pages of each channel are now much more exciting! See, for instance, the Life Science page – it is not just a simple aggregator any more – there is a daily quote from a reader comment (the main quote on the front page is going to continue to be from one of us bloggers), a pretty picture of the day, and more stuff is still in the making. I believe that you need to resuscribe to new RSS feeds for the channels as the old ones are now defunct. Now, just because these changes are new, does not mean they are completely set in stone, so voice your opinions on the comment thread of this post on the editors’ blog.

The Oyster’s Garter


SLA’s Biomedical and Life Sciences Division blog


Interactive Publishing


New@Norris Library


T. rex eats fish…

All but one species


DNApes


Stephen Fry


Correlations


Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week


SWOP East Sex Workers Outreach Project

The Stem Cell Geek


truCubed.com


McBlawg


Ruhlman


365 Cheeses


VarmintBites


Blackwood Eats

Advances in the History of Psychology


SES: Science, Education & Society


Urban Science Adventures!


Feminist undergrad


CarrieBlogKelly

Lali’s Laboratory


Frog Blog


d(PhD)/dt


The Badge (SF Chronicle Police Beat Blog)


Alexipharmacopeia


Ed Boyden


The Conscience of a Liberal (Paul Krugman)


GMO Africa

Learning, Playing, Cooking…


tHE tiDE cHAsER


Pulau Hantu – A celebration of marine life


Manta Blog


Sea Slug Forum


The bird ecology study group (Singapore)


Nature Spies

Sniffing the beaker


Bonobo Handshake


All of My Faults Are Stress Related


Inorganics


Ripples in Sand


Brilliant Mediocrity


Apparent Dip


Becky’s Guide To Blogging

BPR3: Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting


Environmental Progress and Epiphanies


The Official Sacramento Zoo Blog


Clastic Detritus


Sabine’s Garden


A Splash Quite Unnoticed


Issues in Scholarly Communication (Georgia)


Information Research Weblog


The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics


Gus diZerega


Mumbo Gumbo


The ‘blog’ of ‘unnecessary’ quotation marks

What You’re Doing Is Rather Desperate


Traction Lobe


It Has Come To My Attention


Jennomics


Inalienable Rights


Prehistoric Pulp

Little to no blogging for the weekend, unless I hit gold with some free wifi somewhere. Out of town. Will be back….

Sunday Night Dinner


The Yorkshire Ranter


Rota Fortuna


Globally Connected


Mindswap Weblog


The Blue Marble Blog


Science Commons blog


Philosophy of information


Broader Perspective


Pinhead’s Progress


Science Library Pad


Citizen Science Projects

Tonight is the last pre-scheduled ClockQuote and there are no more re-posts in the pipeline! Does this mean I have to start blogging again? But when? I am working now!

ICTlogy


BibliOdyssey


Journalology


Slightly diktytaxitic


The X Vials


Philosophy of Memory

The Primate Diaries


Brettleighdicks – Biology Blog


Fnord


Psych Matters


Manifest Destiny


Wild Roses

J’s blog


The Other 95%


The Ethical Paleontologist


Molecular B(io)LOG(y)


Science With Me


Media Realism


Midwest Teen Sex Show (sex education podcasts)

This crept up on me – I was unaware it was so close yet. I just saw it and had to capture this historical moment:

The 500,000th visitor came from Reading, UK.
After all this time, I still wonder why so many people come here so often: is watching compulsive blogging akin to watching a wreck? You just can’t stop yourself?

Paralepsis


Fresno, Evolving


DSHR’s Blog


Open Left


Issues in Scholarly Communication


Tessa’s Braces


Professor Olsen @ Large


Occam’s Trowel


Enro, scientifique et citoyen

Blooking Central


Clear Thinking


History Hunters International


Crappy Graphs


RRRGroup


Average Earthman


Brad Buchsbaum’s Blog

OK, I have scheduled to repost automatically some of the best clock-related posts. They will appear every day at 9am and 5pm from July 5th till August 12th. I hope you like them again….
Tomorrow, I’ll schedule a bunch of ClockQuotes for the next month as well, every day at 4am.

The Flying Trilobite


Ljubisa Bojic


1420Mhz


Weird Science


Good Tithings


Curious Expeditions


Dandelion Diva


Cabinet of Wonders


Simplistic Art


Mixotrophy


Offal Good

Sleep Apnea ED


Average Earthman


Deep Thoughts and Silliness


Three-Toed Sloth


Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science


The Vanity Website


The Indigestibele

Yves Roumazeilles


Jacks of Science


Science of the Invisible


I, Platform (by Eric Rice)


CorpBlawg


Notes From Ukraine


Howard Hughes Precollege Program Summer 2007


Student Research at Duke


William Kamkwamba’s Malawi Windmill Blog

Dum Luk’s


The Glass is Too Big


Bugs ‘n’ Gas Gal’s Lair


Angry Toxicologist


My Dinner with Andre the Giant


Future Majority


Barbarian Blog

I’ve been a little behind (as in ‘few weeks’) in adding the blogs I tagged in my Blogrolling for Today posts into the actual Blogroll but I caught up with that a few minutes ago. That Blogroll is a Monster! But, check it out anyway – at least check if your blog is there and if the link is correct. I don’t know how useful it is to anyone, but having about a thousand blogs personally chosen and listed in one place is better than browsing tens of millions of blogs that are in existence out there.
Anyway, I am looking for a new newsfeed. Having this many blogs listed is tough on any newsfeed, I understand. I gave up on Bloglines after it went over 700 feeds – I just kept checking the blogs that start with ‘A’ over and over again… Is there a newsfeed that can handle that many blogs? And it looks good, is easy to take a quick look and see what was posted over the past 24-48h (and hopefully let me set how long the posts are displayed)? In other words, I want a list of recent posts, not a list of blogs (bolded if there is something I have not seen over the past months!).
I’d like to be able to keep posts on for a while even if I clicked on them if I intend to link to them later. I also want NOT to have to click on a title in order to see it dissappear in 24-48 hours (who is going to keep deleting or clicking on thousands of posts per day!?).
Right now, I have to do everything the slow way. I check the Last 24 Hours page several times a day to see what my Sciblings have posted (no guarantee I’ll read everything, but I read a lot of those). Then, I check my Sitemeter referrals to see where the readers are coming from, as well as my Technorati and Google Blogsearch results to see who has linked lately (and on those blogs I look around to see what else is on the front page).
Then I go and visit about a dozen blogs that I check daily anyway – I just start typing the first letter or two and my browser knows where to take me.
If I still have time after that, I may go to this list of my favourite non-SB science blogs and browse there. And finally, if I am really idle, I go to my own Blogroll and click around semi-randomly to see what is new.
So, which newsfeed is the best for someone who has 1000 feeds?

World Wide Webbers

VWXYNot?

Darwin’s Army

Relatively Science

Let’s Talk Sleep

Sparrowblog

Limbic Nutrition

Catalogue of Organisms

Morbid Anatomy

Street Anatomy

Scientific curiosity

The Bird’s Brain

YOKOFAKUN

Banapana

Shadow of the Hegemon (check out the archives – this blog is oooold!)

Haliaeetus

Finito

…Or Something

Science Hacker

k/o

All of My Faults Are Stress Related

The Evil Petting Zoo

Open Access Archivangelism

Just Noticeable Differences

Miss ELISA’s world

Eureka Science Forums

Britannica Blog

STS Wiki

Purse Lip Square Jaw

Muttering in a corner

Deception Blog

Furious Seasons

Cumbrian Sky

JeffsBench – Curtis’s blog

Marios’ Entangled Bank

A Knowble Blog

Interprete

Biological Ramblings

A Passion For Nature

Life in the Bristolwood

Dragonfly Eye

Mary’s View

The Winding Path

Research Remix

Academicsecret

Psychology and Crime News

Deep Grace of Theory

Hope for Pandora

Letters from a broad…

Pondering Pikaia

Sleep Expert

Average Professor

On Topp of the World

Liberals In Exile

Green Chameleon

Monkey Trials

Carnival of the Blue

Epidemix

The ScienceBlogs server is getting upgraded tonight, from 9pm EDT until midnight. During that time, there will be no new posts on SB, nor can you post comments, but you can certainly read my blog (time to browse my ample archives, perhaps) or the blogs of my SciBlings. We’ll be back and twice as good after midnight. Hopefully the upgrade will mean less crashes at times when two or three SB blogs get simultaneously hit by avalanches of visits from Digg, Reddit, Fark, Stumbleupon, Slashdot, DailyKos etc.

Duas Quartuncias

Peanut Butter Cabal

Incoherently Scattered Ponderings

Twisted Bacteria

ChiliConDarwin

A Tiny Revolution

The Atavism

Biology, life, and…what else is there?

Secret Sex Lives of Animals

Everest 2007

Providentia

Alexandra van der Geer

The Argo

Scientoskop

Feminist Philosophers

Suicyte Notes

The Stone of Tear

Snarkmarket

Egghead (Research at UC-Davis)

Biology-Blog

The Meming of Life

Omniscopic: A rich worldview

Web Worker Daily

Zooillogix – Don’t Stick Your Fingers in the Cage…

The Futile Cycle

Reed’s Ruminations

The Accidental Scientist

Small Things Considered

Auntie Em’s house of cookies

Letters from Le Vrai

Scientifically Open Source

OptimalScholarship

The Fact Box

iSpiders

Depth-First

Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Brain

Like a lake

PLoS blog

Blue Cat Blog

Yan Feng

Dangerous Intersection

PhDiva

1420Mhz

RichardDawkins.net Forums

George’s Blog

Alone on a Limb

Nobel Intent