5 Years
Something else happened this past week: this blog turned 5.
While I cringe, a bit, looking back at my early posts, I’m kinda gratified that I’ve managed to keep this gig going as long as I have. I’ve certainly learned a lot: about Physics, about markup and — I like to think — about what makes a useful blog post.
Back then, Physics/Math blogs were not exactly thick on the ground. In fact, the genre pretty much didn’t exist. Today, the blogroll at Planet Musings is satisfyingly long.
And yet … I’m a little dissatisfied. Many of the meatiest, most exciting, entries on that list are actually in Mathematics: our own n-Category Café, Terrence Tao’s blog, the Secret Blogging Seminar …
That make me a little jealous. Damnit! We high energy theorists were here first! I think it’s time to try to reanimate the String Coffee Table. Any volunteers?
On a completely unrelated note, I learn, via Sam Ruby, that Liferea, the feed aggregator for the Gnome desktop, supports MathML, SVG and the Atom Threading Extension. That is extraordinarily cool . Posted by distler at October 19, 2007 2:29 PM