Apparently, it’s traditional on this date to post a set of links to your best blog posts from the year. Well, I don’t know about best, but here is a selection of the 2009 Red Notebook posts which I think best reflect my preferred blogging style, when I can find time to write:
… and here are a couple I wrote for the Beagle Project blog:
My New Year’s Resolution? More and better posts next year, I hope.
John Tyndall (1820–1893)
Michael Barton, FCD, over at The Dispersal of Darwin points out that today is the anniversary of the birth of the Victorian physicist John Tyndall.
I confess that I didn’t know much about Tyndall until I read up on him on Wikipedia just now (see previous link). He sounds like an interesting chap: a member of the X Club, successor to Faraday at the Royal Institution, pioneer mountaineer (hey, that rhymes!), accidentally killed by his own wife.
Michael is just about to start work with The John Tyndall Correspondence Project, transcribing some of Tyndall’s letters. He has tentatively set up a new blog, Transcribing Tyndall, where he hopes to share items he comes across about Tyndall’s life and work. It should make very interesting reading.
I’m a big fan of blogs dedicated to very narrow subject areas—even if they are updated infrequently (that’s what RSS feeds are for). Other specialist/restricted subject blogs I enjoy include:
I’m experimenting with a new feature in the sidebar on the Friends of Charles Darwin home page and the Red Notebook main page. It’s entitled Recent Bookmarks, and provides links to articles and news stories I’ve come across recently that I think might be of interest. It’s not intended to replace this weblog, but it is a handy way to provide links to stuff that I might not have time to write about properly.
For the geeks amongst you, the new facility is powered by del.icio.us and makes use of a special tag entitled focdlink. There’s even an RSS feed, if you’re that way inclined.
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