{"id":36623,"date":"2011-01-19T13:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2011-01-24T07:01:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:01:46","slug":"promoting-baby-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/promoting-baby-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting baby-bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/01\/baby.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/01\/baby.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"296\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9262\" \/><\/a>Today I received an email from an academic with whom I am acquainted about how to get a successful blog going. Obviously the main necessary condition is actually to keep plugging away.\u00a0\u00a0Though that&#8217;s not sufficient. <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/thoughtfulanimal\/2011\/01\/supporting_new_bloggers.php\">Jason Goldman<\/a> has a post up, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/thoughtfulanimal\/2011\/01\/supporting_new_bloggers.php\">In the Wake of Science Online (#scio11): Supporting New Bloggers<\/a>. I don&#8217;t believe in supporting new bloggers just <em>because<\/em>. They have to be <em>good<\/em>. But assuming that the <em>goodness<\/em> criterion is met, what next? Last spring when I was on vacation I noticed that Jason Goldman retweeted one of my posts on Jewish genetics. I knew Jason&#8217;s blog from <a href=\"http:\/\/researchblogging.org\/\">ResearchBlogging<\/a>. Additionally, he moved into the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/\">ScienceBlogs<\/a> neighborhood just as I moved out. But the topicality of our weblogs are far enough apart that the retweet got my attention.<\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s be frank: <strong>if you&#8217;re interested in the material that I write about on this weblog, and there&#8217;s not an obvious reason you should be (e.g., your blog is not focused on human evolutionary genetics), I suspect that you are an interesting person as well<\/strong> (at least to me). I am drawn to open-minded people with broad disciplinary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received an email from an academic with whom I am acquainted about how to get a successful blog going. Obviously the main necessary condition is actually to keep plugging away.\u00a0\u00a0Though that&#8217;s not sufficient. Jason Goldman has a post up,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36797,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36623\/revisions\/36797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}