{"id":40048,"date":"2011-04-25T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2011-04-25T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:22:31","slug":"scienceblogstm-to-national-geographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/25\/scienceblogstm-to-national-geographic\/","title":{"rendered":"ScienceBlogsTM to National Geographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read about the <a href=\"http:\/\/storify.com\/mjrobbins\/national-geographic-buy-scienceblogs\">details here<\/a>. Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/slipr.com\/\">Christopher Mims<\/a> has been tweeting the &#8220;secret&#8221; early history of <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/\">ScienceBlogs<\/a> under the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23Sbhistory\">#SBhistory<\/a> hashtag. I was one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/replay.web.archive.org\/20060113023935\/http%3A\/\/scienceblogs.com\/\">original 14<\/a> in January of 2006, so I saw a lot of things go down between then and the spring of 2010, when I moved here to my comfy new digs at <em>Discover<\/em>. I&#8217;d been blogging for over 3.5 years when Chris Mims contacted me out of the blue in the fall of 2005 about some &#8220;secret project.&#8221; It was weird timing, because Hylton Jolliffe of <a href=\"http:\/\/corante.com\/\">Corante<\/a> had also contacted me 1.5 months earlier, though he never got back to me after I responded to his initial email. Blogging was a fun hobby, but I wasn&#8217;t a journalist, so I was pretty skeptical about it all. Chris and I had a back &amp; forth before we finally agreed to terms. My main reason for joining was obviously not money, but perhaps the possibility of greater access to interesting people (e.g., I met <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/geneticfuture\/\">Dr. Daniel MacArthur<\/a> as a commenter on my blog in the spring of 2006, before meeting him in real life years later and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read about the details here. Interestingly, Christopher Mims has been tweeting the &#8220;secret&#8221; early history of ScienceBlogs under the #SBhistory hashtag. I was one of the original 14 in January of 2006, so I saw a lot of things go dow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-scienceblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40048","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=40048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40103,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40048\/revisions\/40103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}