Nobody in the blogosphere takes on the anti-vaccine movement with more passion than Orac, who is a surgeon and biomedical researcher. Stylistically, Orac is a bit long-winded for my taste, but his thoroughness is admirable and appreciated. While some may disapprove of his acidic tone, his persistent deconstruction of the arguments and propaganda advanced by the…Continue Reading…
So what happens when two insufferably smug climate bloggers butt heads over at Climate Progress? It’s a karmic exchange: Eli Rabett says February 21, 2011 at 3:44 pm: As usual, this misses the real point. The current and long term threat to Egyptian agriculture is sea level rise. Egypt is a combination of Chile and…Continue Reading…
Kiss celebrity ass. Lots of it: Mr. Eng posts about 65 items per day, seven days a week, from the moment he wakes up “” sometimes at 5 a.m. Sometimes he doesn’t sleep. Well, I got the no-sleeping part down, but that’s called kidz! So this nice-guy celebrity blogger lured 3.3 million unique visitors to…Continue Reading…
This is going to be a treat. Teofilo, who writes the fantastic Gambler’s House blog, will be filling in for me all this week. Teofilo is a seasonal park ranger at Chaco Canyon, a native of New Mexico, a second year grad student at an east coast university (Masters in urban planning) and a thoughtful…Continue Reading…
If licking envelopes or dog walking isn’t bringing home the bacon, you might want to take a look at this hot new growth industry: The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their…Continue Reading…
Attention all fellow bloggy bottom-feeders, Slate’s Jack Shafer has got your back: Borrowing, sponging, lifting, scrounging, leaching, pinching, and outright theft of other publications’ work is firmly in the American journalistic tradition.