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What language should ScienceBlogs conquer next?

Let’s see, the ScienceBlogs collective started out in English. Earlier this week, our German partner Hubert Burda Media soft-launched ScienceBlogs.de, a German version of the ScienceBlogging collective that you’ve come to know and love (or, in some cases, hate). Now, our benevolent (well, most of the time, anyway) overlords at the Seed Collective Mothership in […]

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Blogging Medicine Science

Congratulations to Abel Pharmboy at Terra Sigillata…

…for reaching a milestone in blogging. One thing that’s always puzzled me is why Abel’s traffic isn’t much higher (and mine lower, to be honest). True, I post much more frequently than he does, but that alone doesn’t explain it. (Maybe it’s EneMan.) Whatever the case, Abel deserves a much larger readership. There’s a disconnect […]

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Blogging Humor Skepticism/critical thinking

Orac, Killer of Buzz…

…or so sayeth Reason.TV, where a credulous blogger didn’t like what Orac laid down and found him oh-so-humorless. Orac, Killer of Buzz. You know, I sort of like the sound of that. I like the sound and humor of this, too. Of course, some buzzes deserve to be terminated with extreme prejudice; so just for […]

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Announcements Blog housekeeping Blogging

2,000,000

I demand the sum of…..two MILLION visits! Muhahahahahaha! Yes, I know I did that bit before, but I liked it so much that I wanted to do it again. Sometime yesterday, this blog hit another milestone. Sometime yesterday morning, Respectful Insolence™ recorded its 2,000,000th visitor. Unfortunately, “sometime yesterday” was while I was at work, and, […]

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Blogging Medicine

Nominated again?

Amazing. I didn’t actually expect this, but it appears that some knuckleheads have actually nominated Respectful Insolence again for the Best Medical/Health Issues Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards, and, even more oddly, I somehow managed to be finalist. It turns out that P.Z. Myers is also a finalist in the Best Science Blog category […]