Guido has a rather eloquent analysis piece on the case against Twitter which notes that difference between those politicos on Twitter who have large following but also have a large following list. Essentially, Alastair Campebll and Derek Draper have very large Twitter followings, but they have achei...

How do you improve your writing? There's no question that there's money to be made selling information online. You only have to look at people like Brian Clark and Darren Rowse to know that you can wake up one day, start blogging, and end up rich and famous! There's a clear path from your brain to y...

The new Open Lab 2008 is here! This book is a collection of 52 essays representing some of the best science blog writing from 2008. It includes essays from a lot of the usual suspects, plus others I bet you don’t know. My own post about WR 104, a potential nearby gamma-ray burst progenitor, is...

We're sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. Umm, well okay then. That is what happened to me when I tried to go to my own blog this morning. I wanted to post somethi...

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-pa...

Time.com has announced its picks for Best Blogs of 2009, and I am very honored that Bad Astronomy — hey, that’s here! — is one of them. They seemed to like the idea of a skeptical blog, which is probably what I like most about what they wrote. It’s very gratifying indeed to k...

I've just read the most incredible thread on LabourList about comments at Guido's website in his latest caption competition. I will add links later as I'm writing this post on a phone and then emailing it, but if you have a chance its worth looking at. Basically there are demands for Iain Dale and C...

It's hard for me to express all the ways and reasons I'm in love with blogging. Denise did a fine list over on our Build a Better Blog. Andy Wibbels posts a great read over on Typepad's blog. Like a good husband, you might not always treat your blog right, but you always come back to it. Here are a ...

Since the second half of last year I’ve been reading a lot of financial news, where the major theme of the financial crisis is the “crisis of trust” - banks not wanting to take the risk of extending credit to counterparties. But we’ve been living through a worsening crisis of...

Guess what? I also write here, now. Parents of special needs consortium, of sorts. As a matter of fact, I wrote there today. I have seen anatomically correct dolls before, but this one made me gasp. Last week's waxing story just begged for another....Thanks, Linda. Jenijen has been putting the squee...