Blogger writes journal article about blogs about journal articles.

By T. Ryan Gregory in Genomicron

July 14, 2008

Or something. See the paper about blogs by John Wilkins, in press in TREE.

[HT: Laelaps, who in my professional opinion has every right to blog about science and does a dandy job too :-)]

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