As some of you might have heard, National Geographic has decided that pseudonymous writers (other than Mark Twain) aren't going to be part of their online presence. I usually don't discuss ScienceBlogs inside baseball stuff, but I'm not getting any response from them (I've received emails telling me how much they want to talk to me, followed by no response). The odds are really, really good I won't be here for much longer, but for now, I'll still be posting here, if for no other reason than my contract requires a certain number of posts per week.
Once that's sorted out, unless I can be convinced to expose myself (so to speak), I'll be moving (already set up a site 'n everything!).
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We'll follow wherever you go. Couldn't care less about blog collectives. It's the individual contributors that matter.
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I get here by via your links on twitter, I don't much care where your blog lives.
We're just a minor RSS feed update from tracking your new home address, wherever that winds up being. And of course Twitter.
You listening, SB? The room is about to start echoing...
this is a case where 1 and 2 make 5. love this blog, read it daily, frequently post portions of it to my Facebook wall. I don't care where it lives, just that it lives.
I hope you stay, one way or another.
Maybe you could tell them that you were born on the day some famous comet passed by the earth, and plan to go out with it too.
Thank you all for the kind words. If I'm contacted by the powers that be, I'll know more.
I'm following you too. Keep it coming, Mike.
Aaaaagh! Too many bookmarks! First Afarenis and John Wilkins, then Ed and PZ, and now you. Who's next? Orac? Why not join Ed, PZ, Cuttlefish et al. on FtB, and blog anonymously to your hearts content?
Yup, you definitely won't lose this regular reader.
Will happily update my RSS in that case.
It is hardly a secret that part of the employment process is to Google applicants and read through their Facebook accounts etc. (I've anecdotally heard some require you to give access). Given that there's a quite legitimate reason to want anonymity. Unless you're independently wealthy are absolutely sure about your employment future, there is no other sane course of action. One does not want to be silently rejected simple because (s)he called Obama, Perry, whoever, a weasel.
In the mean time, keep up the good work.
i don't read you for your RL name, i read you for the thought-provoking link farms. i'll keep reading them wherever your RSS feed may move to.
hint for firefox users: i use the "sage" plug-in. it's an RSS feed tracker and reader that works in a sidebar, sort of like the history panel. it may not be the best RSS reader out there, but it's darn handy and works well enough.
If NG is so concerned with authenticity, maybe they should investigate why photographers for their magazine are now using artificial techniques such as color saturation to tweak their photos.
Come on over to the dark side. It's lovely over here.
Just give us your new URL. We're with you. As far as we are concerned, you are Mike.
BTW - Did we ever say thanks for running such a great blog?
It'll be their loss. Just give us the new address, and we'll be there.
(I find it interesting that there seems to be big anti-pseudonym push at the moment, with G+, NG, and perhaps others. It does not make me happy.)
This is very upsetting, this whole "real name" business. I'm a layperson interested in all sorts of science topics, so I like this collection of blogs. I'm not always interested in your post of the day but there's always something I'm interested in posted by someone else. If all the scientists scatter to their own domains, I won't follow and I'll be poorer intellectually. Sniff.