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Blogging with Substance

Apparently, Mike the Mad Biologist thinks that I have a blog of substance. Or something like that. This appears to be a meme that Bora started, with two rules: 1.

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Apparently, Mike the Mad Biologist thinks that I have a blog of substance. Or something like that.

This appears to be a meme that Bora started, with two rules:

1. Sum up your blogging motivation, philosophy and experience in exactly 10 words.


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2. Tag 10 other blogs to perpetuate the meme. (Only ten? This will be hard!)

Okay, here we go.

In ten words:

Write often. Read lots. Engage. Where is my blogging helmet?

Tag; you're it (blog linked left, twitter linked right):

That wasn't as hard as I thought it would be.

Jason G. Goldman is a science journalist based in Los Angeles. He has written about animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology for Scientific American, Los Angeles magazine, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the BBC, Conservation magazine, and elsewhere. He contributes to Scientific American's "60-Second Science" podcast, and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He enjoys sharing his wildlife knowledge on television and on the radio, and often speaks to the public about wildlife and science communication.

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