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C&EN Needs You!

Bethany Halford needs your thoughts on an opinion piece for C&EN regarding chemistry blogs. So if you are reading this, by definition you are at least a chemical blog reader and maybe a chemical blogger too and eligible to contribute your thoughts to her article.

Bethany makes her request as the 44th comment of a 4-day old blog post at thechemblog. I doubt most people are use to navigating that deeply into old blog entries, so here is her comment.

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Comment by Bethany Halford
2007-01-09 22:16:40

Since Kyle’s graciously provided this open thread, I was wondering if you all could help me with a little experiment in science journalism: reporting via the comments section of a blog.

So, I’m writing an opinion piece on chemistry blogs, and I’d like to know two things from all you bloggers:

1) Why do you blog?

2a) For all of you who write a blog under your own name, why did you opt to do so rather than use a pseudonym? And does your adviser/boss/employer know about it?

2b) For all of you who write a blog under a pseudonym, why did you opt to do so rather than use your real name? And does your adviser/boss/employer know about it?

Commenters without blogs should feel free to chime in, although if you’re commenting anonymously, it would be helpful if you did so under a name other than Anonymous.

If you prefer, you can contact me personally at b_halford (at) acs (dot) org

Thanks, Bethany Halford (Associate Editor, C&EN)

Link to Quote: http://www.thechemblog.com/?p=360#comment-1889

So if you have something you want to say and help contribute to her article, drop her a line at the e-mail listed above or simply leave it in the comments section of thechemblog.

Note 1: I’ll probably send something, but I won’t leave it in thechemblog’s comment section.
Note 2: Egon’s response: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-do-i-blog.html

Edit 1: Decided not to submit anything.
Edit 2: So, I did decide to answer.

Mitch