For those just coming back from their summer vacations, too busy to dig among hundreds of brief posts, here is a list of the posts that I myself consider to be my best in July and August 2008 (and perhaps SuperReaders can pick a few more of these - only 2-3 of those have been picked so far):
July:
Darwinist
Scientists are Excellent Communicators ('Sizzle' follow-up)
The Giant's Shoulders #1
Running the green light....
Crackpottery
Blog Carnivals - what is in it for you?
Are Science Movies Useful?
Berry Go Round #7
When religion goes berserk!
Crayfish, warming up for a fight!
The importance of stupidity in scientific research
August so far:
What I try to do when I travel abroad across several time zones
Well versed in science
Importance of History of Science (for scientists and others)
Paperless Office? Bwahahahaha!
Science vs. Britney Spears
Domestication - it's a matter of time (always is for me, that's my 'hammer' for all nails)
Next thing, they outlaw cooking at home: it's chemistry, after all....
Green Sahara Cemeteries
The Horse Exhibit at the AMNH
Praxis #1
Rage 2.0
Quail And I
Is this useful? Something I should do once a month?
It's very useful, and I wish more prolific bloggers would do this.
I also love index pages, which collect links to posts on a particular topic. In fact, I was going to ask whether you'd done something like a Blogging 101 index post, since you collect so much information on the topic. I tried searching, but Sb is not the most search-friendly site.
Hmmm, no. My 'Blogging' category is too big and messy, but MT does not make it easy to go back and re-categorize posts. Is there any particular topic or post you are interested in?
But you can try scrolling through it and see if there is something you like. And you can check my other categories in the 'Archives' (the button under the banner).
I'm not looking for anything in particular, but I've seen enough to know there's gold in what I haven't gotten to. I was thinking something kind of like what you did with the blog carnivals post, where you collected links to your older posts in one place, only more comprehensive. Just something to make the old work easier to find.
No promises, but if I do get ambitious enough to go through the blogging category, I'll put a page together for it and send you a source code file.