Tag Archives: Blogging

13 Lessons on Successful Blogging

After thousands of posts and a sparkling career as the ultimate professional blogger, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has a thing or two about success in this challenging medium. Whatever your online ambitions, you’re bound to learn from Darren’s experience as he recounts 13 Things I’ve Learned about Successful Blogging: Anticipate Growing Trends Solve Problems and [...]

Excess of Ecosystem

Taxonomy can be tricky business as you nature lovers know. However, we derive great advantage from systems that efficiently and effectively categorize different familes, genera, species, etc. The categorization scheme for members of the Nature Blog Network is also meant to facilitate the identification different blogs in the field. Alas, the classification of nature blogs [...]

Sex Week at Deep Sea News

Our friends over at Deep Sea News are very excited (maybe too excited!) to introduce several experts in reproduction and reproductive ecology in celebration of Sex Week. They’ll be discussing their favorite topics: sponge clouds, barnacle penises, triggers of sex at vents, mussel love, sex when you have more than 4 arms, and much more. [...]

Battle of the Blogs

Nature blogging is supposed to be some fun, easygoing activity sandwiched between long hikes and long naps, right? Sure it is, or at least that’s what they tell you as you’re signing up for that free Blogger account. But if everything is so lovey-dovey, loosey-goosey out here, why is everyone else so committed to taking [...]

Nature Blogging at ScienceOnline09

At last weekend’s terrific ScienceOnline09 science blogging conference, two Nature Blog Network stalwarts Grrlscientist of Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) and Kevin Zelnio of Deep-Sea News moderated a session on Nature Blogging. Alas, N8 and I missed this valuable session since we were out, um, chasing nature but that doesn’t mean the important dialogue [...]

Top 10 Nature Moments of 2008

We’re almost halfway through the first month of 2009 yet I’ve forgotten to share this nature blogger meme regarding 2008! Tai Haku, intrepid explorer of Earth, Wind, & Water, is inviting bloggers to think back across their last year and come up with a list of their Top 10 Nature Moments of 2008. The moments [...]