Today I received an email from an academic with whom I am acquainted about how to get a successful blog going. Obviously the main necessary condition is actually to keep plugging away. Though that’s not sufficient. Jason Goldman has a post up, In the Wake of Science Online (#scio11): Supporting New Bloggers. I don’t believe in supporting new bloggers just because. They have to be good. But assuming that the goodness criterion is met, what next? Last spring when I was on vacation I noticed that Jason Goldman retweeted one of my posts on Jewish genetics. I knew Jason’s blog from ResearchBlogging. Additionally, he moved into the ScienceBlogs neighborhood just as I moved out. But the topicality of our weblogs are far enough apart that the retweet got my attention.
Let’s be frank: if you’re interested in the material that I write about on this weblog, and there’s not an obvious reason you should be (e.g., your blog is not focused on human evolutionary genetics), I suspect that you are an interesting person as well (at least to me). I am drawn to open-minded people with broad disciplinary …