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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 Tangled Bank #26 Head on over to Circadiana to read this week's compilation of science blogging. As always, excellent stuff to spend the week perusing and thinking about. Of course, this isn't just any edition of Tangled Bank, this marks the one year point of the weblog carnival. So a happy birthday to an internet meme that has survived, flourished, and succeeded! I don't know about you, but this is one of the few memes out there that I actually learn something from. I've also discovered plenty of wonderful science bloggers who I wouldn't have found otherwise. No offense to those numerous political bloggers, journallers, and cat bloggers, but there is only so much one can take of vitrolic punditry, excessive introspection, and cute pictures. Sometimes one needs something different with substance. I've been lucky to be one of the first people to be featured in the first edition of Tangled Bank as well as having the pleasure of hosting another edition. My original intent for submitting was not to get hits and readers (although that is quite nice) but to spur myself to write more science-oriented posts. I still don't post as many science articles as I'd like to, but compared to the period before the creation of the carnival, science blogging was at best, sporadic. Science blogging is different than, well, the kind of blogging that most people do. I don't consider myself a complete obsessive, but I do enjoy doing background reading on a post I'm thinking about writing. And the added bonus is that I don't feel like I'm wasting too much time doing something unproductive--after all, I'm learning. I don't find this daunting because science is just plain fun. If it was any other type of niche blogging like finance or po-mo criticism, I might enjoy reading about it and learn something. But I wouldn't go so far as to blog about it because I don't personally find those subjects fun. Is all blogging going toward one niche or another, just as people in the real world specialize to different jobs? General and personal blogging is easy to do--anyone can do it--and it doesn't take that long to type up something that everyone (or most everyone) can relate to. Sometimes I wonder, what's the challenge in that? (And sometimes there is the annoying thought that no one will take me seriously if I'm not serious all the time.) But I know I can't just give up general blogging--it's what I started with and I don't have the energy to niche blog every day. How on earth did I manage to go from a meme announcement, a testamonial, and then navel gazing? Oh well, that's the nature of most weblogs and mine isn't any different. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 9:45 AM : ]
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