{"id":352,"date":"2008-11-14T22:37:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2008\/11\/14\/about_a_blog\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T22:37:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T22:37:03","slug":"about_a_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2008\/11\/14\/about_a_blog\/","title":{"rendered":"About a blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking my cue from Martin’s excellent suggestion<\/a>, and following Henry<\/a>, Steffi<\/a>, Eva<\/a> and Maxine<\/a>, here’s my tuppence-worth:<\/p>\n

\t1. What is your blog about?<\/strong>
\nUsually about 500 words\u2026 on the subject of the underbelly of science. The guts and bolts, so-to-speak.<\/p>\n

\t2. What will you never write about?<\/strong>
\nReal-time experimental results \u2013 my lab-books are closed until peer review. Sorry Cameron.<\/p>\n

\t3. Have you ever considered leaving science?<\/strong>
\nYes.<\/p>\n

\t4. What would you do instead?<\/strong>
\nThere was a time at the end of my PhD when I thought I wanted to be a hospital manager and joined the NHS for 10 months. It was not a marriage made in heaven. Lately I\u2019ve been thinking of applying for jobs in Hollywood\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\t5. What do you think will science blogging be like in 5 years?<\/strong>
\nNo idea. No, really \u2013 not a clue.<\/p>\n

\t6. What is the most extraordinary thing that happened to you because of blogging?<\/strong>
\nWell, it\u2019s a bit early to say since I\u2019ve only been in this game for a couple of months. I have certainly enjoyed getting to know people, some of whom I\u2019ve even met in first life! And it\u2019s great to have an outlet for writing about science that some people actually seem to read. And while I enjoy the scientific community round here, I would like to see NN expanding its audience outwardly.<\/p>\n

\tOh, and my kids think I’m a little bit ‘cool’ to be blogging!<\/p>\n

\t7. Did you write a blog post or comment you later regretted?<\/strong>
\nNot apart from this one.<\/p>\n

\t8. When did you first learn about science blogging?<\/strong>
\nRelatively recently – probably within the last 2 or 3 years.<\/p>\n

\t9. What do your colleagues at work say about your blogging?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m still waiting for most of them to find out. I haven\u2019t advertised it widely where I work and no-one who knows about it has yet passed comment.<\/p>\n

\t10. Extra credit: are you able to write an entry to your blog that takes the form of a poem about your research?<\/strong>
\nWell, I think I started that<\/a> – surely my credit\u2019s good? In any case, my muse is all wrung out this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking my cue from Martin’s excellent suggestion, and following Henry, Steffi, Eva and Maxine, here’s my tuppence-worth: 1. What is your blog about? Usually about 500 words\u2026 on the subject of the underbelly of science. The guts and bolts, so-to-speak. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}