{"id":59,"date":"2008-04-13T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/04\/13\/poster_boy\/"},"modified":"2008-04-13T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T08:59:14","slug":"poster_boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/04\/13\/poster_boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Poster Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theme at NN this week has been <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/rpg\/2008\/04\/10\/damsel-in-distress\">popularity<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/UE19877E8\/2008\/04\/06\/in-which-i-get-into-a-little-muddle-about-archivin\">trying<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/ennis\/2008\/04\/10\/wheres-my-biostatistician-in-shining-armour\">to get<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/henrygee\/2008\/04\/11\/whenever-i-feel-like-blogging\">attention<\/a>.  Always one to charge after a bandwagon, demanding to be let on board, I thought I would chime in.<br \/>\nEven better, there are two bandwagons I can try not to be pushed off.  Whilst he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/henrygee\/2008\/04\/12\/bora-is-here\">enjoying himself<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2008\/04\/eurotrip_08_cromer_heidi_the_d.php\">in Norfolk<\/a>, Bora&#8217;s blog has leapt into action and produced a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2008\/04\/what_makes_a_memorable_poster_2.php\">post on posters<\/a>.  This is too good an opportunity to miss, so I&#8217;m reprising the <a href=\"http:\/\/deepthoughtsandsilliness.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/best-conference-poster-evar.html\">most popular post<\/a> from my previous place.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nLast summer ESEB(European Society for Evolutionary Biology) had its bi-annual bash in Uppsala.  Chris, from here in Helsinki, had booked to attend, and was due to present a poster.  But he decided at the last moment he couldn&#8217;t be bothered.  Some of his colleagues (now at different levels of ex-friendship) decided this was too good an opportunity to miss.  They created their own poster for his slot, and duly put it up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9nZU9XoP5hk\/RsvL0ONrA7I\/AAAAAAAAAC8\/pIFlUe8cuBw\/s1600-h\/ChrisN2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9nZU9XoP5hk\/RsvL0ONrA7I\/AAAAAAAAAC8\/pIFlUe8cuBw\/s320\/ChrisN2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter I had blogged about it, I sent the link to PZ Myers, who kindly <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2007\/08\/the_standards_at_eseb_are_drop.php\">linked to it<\/a>.  In terms of getting visitors, this was a great success with over 3000 hits for that post, or about 1000 more than for any other of my posts.  Disappointingly though, I only got 2 comments.  Even worse, there were 13 on the Pharyngula post.  Let&#8217;s see if I do any better this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme at NN this week has been popularity and trying to get attention. Always one to charge after a bandwagon, demanding to be let on board, I thought I would chime in. Even better, there are two bandwagons I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/04\/13\/poster_boy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}