Even later edit: I had originally thought I would be able to direct people to the major news organizations that have re-published my blog. As many have found out, this doesn't work. One of the reasons is that the media require people to register and log in to the various sites to see certain content. It is their content, so they set the rules (even if it is my content featured on their content, as it turns out). While I thought that the story here (below) might seem like fiction without evidence, I cannot actually republish the articles from Reuters etc. anywhere (even though they are "my articles" on one sense). Please don't take this as a complaint- it isn't. It is in the agreement that I signed with Reuters (and I'm not picking on them, they are great!). The agreement says that I can't use the Reuters logo anywhere. It is their logo. They control where it goes. It goes on their site that contains my a part of my blog, but cannot go here on Gather, on my blog, or anywhere else that I might try to place it- that would be breaking the agreement). Why am I saying this? I'm just trying to clarify the situation, partly in light of a recent article on copyright by Heather W. and the subsequent discussion.
So, to be as clear as possible, I'm presenting this information about BlogBurst because many of you write great articles on subjects of interest worldwide. BlogBurst might provide other amateurs (like me) a route to more readership. I'm not endorsing it or recommeding it, because it may not be for you. I am enjoying it personally (even though I basically provide free content for newspapers etc.)- I wouldn't write it if I didn't want people to read it.
The previous (somewhat silly) post is here.
p.s. That "paste from Word" function isn't too great! I just had to re-edit this whole section three times.
Late edit: Just to save you the annoyance, I've broken the useless links below. The blog itself is here.
Actually, this is kind of exciting (and I'm no longer sitting on 666 in Austin). Well, the "click throughs" may set a historical low, but good old Reuters is working hard for me. My blog's appearance in the Washington Post blog predates signing up for blogburst, so no numbers from that. The start of a media empire? Don't worry, I don't want to own a pro sports team, let alone relocate it from your town! Jim
Posts & Publishers
Top10 Posts (All History) for Chemistry for a sustainable world
| Post Date | Post Views | Click Throughs |
Solar Power Now Cheaper than Coal | 1/8/2008 | 668 | 1 |
Top 5 Advantages of Geothermal Power | 12/16/2007 | 74 | 6 |
Top10 Publishers (All History) for Chemistry for a sustainable world
| Total Views |
Reuters | 12,721 |
Austin American Statesman | 793 |
Atlanta Journal Constitution | 169 |
coxohio.com | 142 |
FoxNews | 80 |
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Big fan of solar and geothermal. Never did understand why they didn't take off with more zeal when we were young and fighting for "our Mother Earth". Yeah, I know oil, etc stompt around in big boots too close to the solar businesses trying to make a go of it, but as any econ student will tell you --demand generates supply-- we stopped demanding and crawled off and had the next generation. Then we bought our SUVs. We really could have made some serious changes had we stuck to our guns and lived what we said.
Good articles. Thanks. And swing over to flit's group and start posting over there too.
I think that we definitely stopped demanding, but also there wasn't necessarily anything to actually buy.
I believe that the lack of practical, finished products resulted from the following: there was almost no money put into R&D for alternative energy- all of the Republican administrations, until now, have branded it as anti-business, and the current one figured out a way to make it pro-business but bad for the environment (corn ethanol).
I'm not anti-business at all. But, these slowdowns in (US) research funding have left it to individual entrepreneurs, who took a while getting to where they are today, for whatever reasons.
We can still benefit from research in other countries, but we have to try. Recent polls somewhere credible (I think it is on my blog somewhere) indicated that, while Americans are more concerned about the environment than ever, they are, on average, less willing to do anything about it (like stop driving the SUVs already, at least if they don't need them- I understand that some people do need them, but not many).
Thanks for the comment and link!
I can also recommend treehugger.com (and my blog roll at www.greenchemistry.wordpress.com has a lot of other good sites listed).
And thank you for the recommendation, Morgan Aleeta.
Cheryl, thanks for stopping by to read and comment. You are certainly right that there is continually growing interest in green news, though this is offset to some extent by a backlash against fears of global warming that comes from some people and groups.
I try to be clear that there are plenty of things to act on and be concerned about, no matter what one believes about global warming. Hugg.com is a good place to go for green news.