A Change of Venue

April 13, 2010 by myrmecos

A big announcement this morning: Myrmecos has joined ScienceBlogs. Update your bookmarks! The new URL is:

http://scienceblogs.com/myrmecos/

The move has been in the making for nearly a year. I guest blogged at SB’s “Photo Synthesis” last April and was invited to stay on, but I resisted for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the biggest is that I’m rather fond of WordPress as a blogging platform. I like this blog as it is, where it is, and embedded within the warm fuzzy environs of the (mostly wordpress) nature-blogging community.

But it seemed increasingly short-sighted to forgo the greater visibility of ScienceBlogs for such curmudgeonly reasons. After all, it’s not like none of my regular readers (that’s you, Mom!) will be able to find the new location over at ScienceBlogs. Plus, I was able to move the entire archive over- comments and all.

What will change with the move? Aside from the font, my hope is not much at all. We’ll have Friday Beetles, Monday Mysteries, a bit of photography and commentary on the scientific literature. Taxonomy Fails, both mine and others. Occasional photographs of our cat. So, we’ll keep doing what we’ve been doing. See you over there!

Posted in Blogging | 21 Comments

21 Responses

on April 13, 2010 at 7:33 am Joshua King

Now that you are about to become a famous celebrity, will you start hanging out with Paris and Britney?
- on April 13, 2010 at 9:59 am myrmecos
  
  Ug. Just, ug.
on April 13, 2010 at 7:43 am Ted C. MacRae

My heartiest congratulations – you’ve hit the big time!
- on April 13, 2010 at 10:00 am myrmecos
  
  Thanks Ted! I’ll be sending some traffic your way every now and again, if I can swing it.
  - on April 13, 2010 at 1:54 pm Ted C. MacRae
    
    Thanks, Alex – although you’ve been doing a great job at that already for some time now!
on April 13, 2010 at 8:18 am Roberto Keller

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! Signing with a major record label, the end of indie blogging.
- on April 13, 2010 at 9:58 am myrmecos
  
  yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssss
  
  Now I get to fly around the world in a private blog jet, but only if I agree to blog about squid.
on April 13, 2010 at 8:43 am ihateaphids

w00t
on April 13, 2010 at 2:30 pm Tim Eisele

Whoohoo! It’s about time there was somebody on Scienceblogs that actually concentrated on bugs!
on April 13, 2010 at 4:55 pm Rick Lieder

Great news, Alex!
on April 13, 2010 at 7:40 pm Ainsley S

Congrats! The new site looks super sharp!
on April 13, 2010 at 9:15 pm Jack Jumper

What’s Your cat done now.
- on April 14, 2010 at 7:56 am myrmecos
  
  Now that spring is here, he spends most of his waking hours yelling at us because we’re not letting him out.
on April 14, 2010 at 6:40 am Gail K

Congrats, Alex–your kick-off of Photo Synthesis was never matched or exceeded, so I am not surprised that ScienceBlogs continued to court you!
on April 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm Henry W. Robison

This is wonderful news Alex! Congratulations! Your blog is the first thing I look at after my emails everyday to read your new posts and to see your great macrophotography! Keep up the good work and congrats again!
on April 15, 2010 at 9:52 am neil

Myrmecos will be a fantastic addition to the Borg, congrats!
on April 16, 2010 at 12:49 pm JustKristin

Congrats from a closet ant-fan. 🙂
- on April 18, 2010 at 3:20 am Ant
  
  Tom Cruise, come out of the closet please. [grin]
  
  Myrmecos, awesome! Wait, that means no more updates to your WordPress! 😦
on July 2, 2010 at 1:11 am Joshua

Hi,

congratulations!

But this blog does continue its service?

Greetings
Josh
Ameisenhaltung Blog
on July 8, 2010 at 11:24 am Bug Girl

Welcome back!
- on July 8, 2010 at 1:41 pm myrmecos
  
  Thanks Bug Girl!