Role Reversal

Frequently on Dechronization, we are writing about scientific publications, hoping to point out new and interesting papers to the readers and inviting discussion. A new paper entitled, "Blogging Evolution", just published in Evolution: Education and Outreach (a relatively new journal founded by fellow AMNH'er Niles Eldredge and his son Gregory), though is a journal article about evolutionary blogs, including this one. Adam Goldstein, (the philosophy professor at Iona College, not the DJ who just died) gives a very thorough and very detailed summary of what blogs are and how they work (it was at some points like reading a users manual for blogging - and I mean that in a complimentary way). He divides up blogs into professional (by science writers, like Olivia Judson's), amateur (like ours -- not that we're not professional scientists, we just have day jobs), organization and project-based blogs, apostolic (his example is Pharyngula), imaginative (Carl Zimmer's The Loom, is one example), and networks of blogs. So, in the hope that this doesn't become too horribly circular, here's a posting about an article about our blog...