September is obviously an auspicious month for starting geology blogs: Brian’s celebrated its first anniversary last week, and over the weekend Highly Allochthonous turned two. I’ve come a long way since my first post, and even since this time last year; I certainly did not expect to be marking this anniversary as a member of Scienceblogs (a fairly minor one to be sure, but I still think it’s pretty cool). So who knows what next year will bring – I can only hope that I continue to improve as a writer, and that people keep on reading and commenting.
By way of a retrospective this year, I thought that this would be a good time to consider what, if anything, I should submit for this year’s Science Blogging Anthology. However, since I find self-assessment rather difficult, I thought that I might prevail on you – the readers – to help me out. I’d like to know what you’d consider to be my best posts from the past nine months. Consider it a birthday present – and, as it was my actual birthday on Friday too, a virtual replacement for those beers y’all would be buying me if we were on the same continent.
As a starting point, here are a few posts which either seemed particularly popular, or that I was particularly proud of:
- Seismic triggering of volcanic eruptions: from Darwin to today
- Why Earth-centrics are always going to be surprised
- Geological Basics: the difference between chronology and stratigraphy
- Journey to the bottom of the Cambrian
- Where the Moon was at, 3.2 billion years ago
- Of aftershocks and tsunamis
However, if you enjoyed something else I’ve written better, please let me know what, and (if possible) why. This may seem like just a big ego-stroking exercise for yours truly, but at these times I like to look forward as well as back; I’m also thinking about where to take this blog in the future, and your opinions matter (even if I reserve the right to completely ignore them…one captain on a ship and all that). So if you have any general comments or suggestions, this is the place to make them known, as well.
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