Change
I'm not sure if I have any regular readers left. This blog certainly hasn't been regular over the past months so if you're still here then thanks for sticking it out (even if it is just because you couldn't be bothered to remove me from your RSS reader).
This blog was originally set up so that I could "write about astronomy and astrophysics related stuff". That was in 2003 and with everyone else doing such a great job of covering the latest astronomical happenings, it seems pointless me repeating it when you can get it from people such as Tom, Ian, Sarah, Phil, Stuart and Andy more quickly and in much more detail. That, combined with various IYA2009 events, podcasts and an increasingly busy real job (particularly since May!), has left me little time to write here. This situation isn't going to change any time soon.
My blogging days aren't over but the type of thing that I'll cover here is changing. I don't have the time to maintain a news blog or write long, insightful articles. This blog is, however, my base and it will continue to be where I put things of interest that aren't covered elsewhere and are too long to fit into 140 characters. I'll also use it to talk about astronomical things I've made and done. Talking of which, news of a new toy I've been developing coming soon.
Comments: Change
Stuart, I follow your blog with a lot of interest and when one of your posts pops up in my RSS reader, I'm sure to read it. Quality trumps quantity every time. Glad to hear that you plan to keep writing and congratulations on your new job!
Kevin
Posted by Kevin Jardine on Tuesday 15th Sep 2009 (06:02 UTC)
Posted by Cesy on Tuesday 15th Sep 2009 (07:10 UTC)
(raises hand)
Posted by Rob on Tuesday 15th Sep 2009 (16:13 UTC)
Kevin, umm I went to your site and I think I've slightly re-invented some of what you've done. That is a bit embarrassing. I hope you won't mind.
Posted by Stuart on Tuesday 15th Sep 2009 (17:18 UTC)
Stuart, if you are referring to your fantastic LookUP service, I don't see that as duplicating what Galaxy Map does at all, and in fact I am thinking about incorporating LookUP into a nebula reference page on Galaxy Map at some point!
Posted by Kevin Jardine on Wednesday 16th Sep 2009 (09:02 UTC)
Blogging has been dead to me for a long time, but it really isn't frequent publication that matters so much as quality (and I'm sure that bodes well for many things in the world). If you can, write when it comes to you, don't take it as a job, take it as expression. Even in the death of the newspaper, it's the sincere writers that are really needed.
Posted by Brady J. Frey on Thursday 17th Sep 2009 (16:42 UTC)