Nov 5, 2007
Vote for Sciencebase
I need your support! Sciencebase got nominated for a 2007 Weblog Award in the Science category, so it would be great if as many of you could vote for the site. This is the link – http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-science-blog-1.php – be sure to pick Sciencebase. I’ve been a bit slow off the mark on this one, and reckon there are probably too many others way ahead of me now to ever catch up, unless all 2604 of today’s Sciencebase’s RSS subscribers vote for me right now and pass the message on!
I’m glad that these awards have made me aware of other interesting science blogs like this one. As far as the Weblog Awards are concerned, they’re popularity contests and not indications of relative scientific merit.
So well done, Dave. I’m sure that you’ll grow your reader base and crush all before you next year!
Dave’s site is lagging behind but still has a chance to catch up a more respectable position as it’s just 11 votes behind the next site and 24 behind the one after that. So come on, get voterizating for Sciencebas!
Some additional techy information about the other finalists
readers is based on feedburner feed count, an XXX means the site either doesn’t use FB or has not chosen to display their count. PR is Google PageRank, the higher the number the more weight in Google SERPs. Alexa is traffic rank based on their toolbar and widget usage, smaller number is better. Compete is a more accurate representation of how far a blog reaches in terms of traffic. A smaller number is better, but 0 means no compete rank.
http://www.badastronomy.com/ – readers 9766 – PR4 – Alexa 50,291 – compete 36k
http://www.sciencebase.com/ – readers 2826 – PR7 – Alexa 133,114 – compete 90k
http://www.bootstrap-analysis.com/ readers 274 – PR5 – Alexa unranked – compete 412k
http://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/ – readers 102 – PR 5 – Alexa 3,415,798
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ – readers XXX – PR7 – Alexa 11,797 – compete 7k
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/ – readers XXX – PR6 – Alexa 3,836 – compete 1k
http://www.junkscience.com/ readers XXX – PR6 – Alexa 153,272 – compete 53k
http://www.climateaudit.org/ readers XXX – PR 6 – Alexa 244,612 – Compete 0
http://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/ readers XXX – PR5 – Alexa 3,415,798 – compete 0
http://pipeline.corante.com/ readers XXX – PR 4 – Alexa 56,205 – compete 26k
http://journeybystarlight.blogspot.com/ readers XXX – PR4 – Alexa 3,768,415 – compete 0
Sites are ordered by readers, then PR, then Alexa.
Sciencebase is currently the underdog, 139 votes last time I checked (and I’m checking every hour on the hour, by the way ;-)
Here’s that voting link again…
http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-science-blog-1.php
Good luck Dave, you can vote for the site again after 24 hours