{"id":4988,"date":"2010-08-23T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/23\/whos-the-oldest-science-blogge\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T13:34:33","slug":"whos-the-oldest-science-blogge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/23\/whos-the-oldest-science-blogge\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s the Oldest Science Blogger?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derek Lowe’s doing a lunch thing at the ACS meeting<\/a>, and in passing mentions the age of his blog:<\/p>\n

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As the longest-standing chemistry blogger (perhaps the longest standing science blogger, for all I know), I’m glad to have a chance to speak.<\/p>\n

I was just telling a reader by e-mail that when I started this site in 2002, that I wasn’t sure how much I’d find to write about. But (for better or worse) the material just keeps on coming. . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Derek’s blog pre-dates this one by a few months– I specifically cite him in the very first Uncertain Principles post<\/a>, so he’s got me beat. I wonder, though, if there are any science blogs that have been going for longer. I suppose it hinges on the definition of a “blog”– John Baez’s This Week’s Finds<\/a> started in 1993, and Bob Park’s What’s New<\/a> pre-dates the Web, having started in 1987 (or at least that’s the first year for which they have an online archive<\/a>). You could probably make a reasonable argument that neither of those was really a blog by the modern definition.<\/p>\n

So what is the oldest science blog in existence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derek Lowe’s doing a lunch thing at the ACS meeting, and in passing mentions the age of his blog: As the longest-standing chemistry blogger (perhaps the longest standing science blogger, for all I know), I’m glad to have a chance to speak. I was just telling a reader by e-mail that when I started this… Continue reading Who’s the Oldest Science Blogger?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}