{"id":3638,"date":"2010-07-03T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/07\/dear-readers-tell-us-about-yourself\/"},"modified":"2010-07-03T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T08:30:00","slug":"dear-readers-tell-us-about-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/07\/dear-readers-tell-us-about-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear readers: tell us about yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: left; padding: 5px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/chrisicon2.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Chris Rowan\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/anneicon.jpg\" width=\"49\" height=\"50\" alt=\"A post by Anne Jefferson\"\/><\/span>One of the blogging commandments should probably be: know thy readers! Therefore we are following the example of <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/ethicsandscience\/2010\/07\/2010_blog-reader_census.php>Janet<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/drugmonkey\/2010\/07\/the_revenge_of_who_are_you_wha.php>DrugMonkey<\/a> and various others (who are themselves riffing from <a href=http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/>Ed Yong&#8217;s<\/a> original <a href=http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/notrocketscience\/2008\/07\/spread_the_word.php>idea<\/a>) and asking you, our readers, to tell us a little about yourselves.<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Who are you? Academic or professional geologist, student, enthusiastic rockhound, general browser?<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>What&#8217;s your level of science education? Postgraduate, undergraduate, school, dropped it like a hot potato at earliest opportunity?<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>What originally brought you to this blog, and what keeps you coming back (if indeed, you intend to)?<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Which of the topics covered here do you particularly enjoy? Is there anything you tend to skip? <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Are there any topics that would you like us to write about more often? <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>If you lurk rather than commenting, are you content with that? Are there conditions that you think might suck you into commenting?<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>If you could ask us to write one post explaining one basic concept in earth science, what would that concept be?<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>And finally, we have to ask: which is better, water or rocks?<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delurk for just one day and give us some feedback. Please?<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2010\/07\/dear-readers-tell-us-about-yourself\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}