{"id":38,"date":"2008-03-08T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/03\/08\/nature_the_oldest_blog_in_the_world\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T22:29:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:29:01","slug":"nature_the_oldest_blog_in_the_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/03\/08\/nature_the_oldest_blog_in_the_world\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature: The Oldest Blog in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2008\/03\/were_8_were_8.php\">Orac<\/a>, I see that Wikio has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikio.com\/blogs\/top\/sciences\">listing of top science blogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSomehow, I&#8217;m not sure about this.  Firstly, one of the Science blogs they list is <em>Nature<\/em>, linking to the current issue.  Huh?  Even worse (hang your heads in shame, editors), <em>Nature<\/em> is only at 94.  That&#8217;s 26 places behind <a href=\"http:\/\/telicthoughts.com\/\">Telic Thoughts<\/a>, an Intelligent Design blog.<br \/>\nIn the general classification, <em>Nature<\/em> is over 350 places behind their own blogs (which are classified as &#8220;Other&#8221;, not science).  I guess with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v452\/n7183\/full\/452028d.html\">rubbish they&#8217;re filling their pages nowadays<\/a>, it&#8217;s not surprising nobody wants to link to them.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a serious point in all this, but quite frankly who cares when the alternative is a cheap laugh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Orac, I see that Wikio has a listing of top science blogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}