Science and sensibility

Ever wonder what happens when a small time blogger hosts the Tangled Bank? Well, for a start this does:

This is the traffic report for Science and Sensibility from sitemeter. The February and March traffic is thanks to my letting the blog go to seed while I was working for HortResearch, the now incremental rise in traffic in April and May looked pretty steep until Thursday's Tangled Bank shifted the scale considerably. In fact, before I posted the Tangled Bank this month's traffic was only slightly above May's total - in the next two days it was more than doubled.

Of course, blogging, for me at lest, isn't a competition to get loads of links or tonnes of traffic. I like writing and reading about science - it's fun. This is why I want to encourage anyone that is considering hosting the TB at some stage goes for it. It was really great getting a great post after great post delivered to my inbox. Following that I got to break out some analytical skills to try develop a brief summary that represents the intent of the post's author ( to be honest, this was made easier by the high standard of posts I received.) If you follow the sage advice of hedwig_the_owl then playing host shouldn't take too much of your time and it really is fun and rewarding. Though I would like to add one point that understandably didn't quite make it into hedgewick's piece. If you want to present your links in a table with more than 30 rows then you really ought to know the slightest thing about 'table's, 'tr's and 'td's beforehand - I tweaked more html in the last run towards posting TB #31 than copy