{"id":58,"date":"2006-07-05T21:45:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2006\/07\/05\/huh-howd-that-happen\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T21:45:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T21:45:46","slug":"huh-howd-that-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/05\/huh-howd-that-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Huh? How&#039;d that happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As lots of folks around SB have been commenting today, Nature magazine has come up with a list of the top 50 science blogs, based on technorati ratings. According to them, GM\/BM is the number 45 science blog in the world. Even if it is a screwy way of figuring out what science blogs are most widely read, it&#8217;s still just astounding that by <em>any<\/em> measure, this blog is ranked that high.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve only been doing this blogging thing since March. And when I started, I really expected that I&#8217;d be lucky to get a dozen readers a day, if that. I thought I&#8217;d probably wind up giving up and folding within the first month.<br \/>\nInstead, it&#8217;s been four months, and there are somewhere around a thousand people reading this blog each weekday. (Or a hell of a lot more than that on a day like today, when I&#8217;ve been linked by DarkSyde on DailyKos and by the USAToday. Thanks to both of you!)<br \/>\nThanks folks. I&#8217;m really amazed at how well this blog has been received; and I&#8217;m happier than I can really express to find out that people are interested in the crazy stuff I write about.<br \/>\nAlso, while I&#8217;m chattering away: the GM\/BM DonorsChoose challenge raised $1400 towards supporting math education. Those of you who donated, thank you! SB as a whole raised over $30,000 towards math and science education. That&#8217;s going to make a real difference to a lot of kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As lots of folks around SB have been commenting today, Nature magazine has come up with a list of the top 50 science blogs, based on technorati ratings. According to them, GM\/BM is the number 45 science blog in the world. Even if it is a screwy way of figuring out what science blogs are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","tag-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}