Comments on: The BA Blog is going offline for a few hours

By: nwcvukle

nwcvukle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:37:23 +0000

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By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:50:53 +0000

Mena, I run Firefox (with NoScript), most ads are by default absent. Sounds bad though.

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:59:36 +0000

Is the Flat Earth Society real or is just some elaborate joke?

The last I checked it was mostly a goof, but I’m sure there’s a handful of believers.

By: John Kemeny

John Kemeny — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:46:41 +0000

There once was a Doctor named Plait,
Who’s astronomy blog was quite great.
Then he took it offline
For reasons sublime
But for what, well we all had to wait.

Now he’s back and he has a new home;
Good luck in the universes you roam.
Now as we’ve come to Discover
This comment did not recover,
And that is the point of this tome.

By: Electro

Electro — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:51:19 +0000

Thank you Mrs BA,

never realized that you were looking out for us as well.

By: kpipzuoq

kpipzuoq — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:32:27 +0000

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By: dkary

dkary — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:42:56 +0000

I noticed one other change: where are the links to other Blogs?

By: Vagueofgodalming

Vagueofgodalming — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:28:35 +0000

Oh, congratulations, BA. I hope pay you a decent amount.

This loads a lot quicker – the old site was always slow.

By: BigBadSis

BigBadSis — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:24:21 +0000

Phil’s on the homepage! http://www.discovermagazine.com.

By: Blu-Ray-Ven

Blu-Ray-Ven — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:18:48 +0000

wow ive been waiting all day for this “BIG NEWS”, and here it is, tada. not what i expected but cool. and now i know why phil siad not to leave comments on his last 2 posts. there were over 200 and now there allllll gone. oh well

i anticipate reading what made phil switch to discover. i would have perfered Scientific American, but its phils blog. and i will continue to read it

By: davidlpf

davidlpf — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:15:11 +0000

Well loks like my old message was deleted so I will repeat looks good so far.

By: davidlpf

davidlpf — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:13:18 +0000

Looks like a mistyped my email now the comment is awaiting moderation.

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:10:17 +0000

Just popping my head round the door to say hi. Nice place. Hope I’m out of filter purgatory too!

… any tea on this spaceship?

By: hambr

hambr — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:09:09 +0000

Hey Guys,

Couple questions. Is the Flat Earth Society real or is just some elaborate joke? Would it be wrong to buy a shirt from them if they were available? I really wouldn’t want to help fund such lunacy but the shirt would be really cool.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:57:49 +0000

Phil,

I liek the new site. Except for the “Stumble it!” images. They’re annoying, distracting,
ugly, and pretentious. Do you really need them? Have they done anything really
good and necessary for you?

I miss your “Bad Astronomy” logo too. Is there anyway to include it at the
top of the Discover Magazine blog?

Hope you like Canada.

By: davidlpf

davidlpf — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:54:54 +0000

looks good so far.

By: 01101001

01101001 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:53:56 +0000

(Result of last experiment: timestamps are Eastern Time.)

People who are suggesting format improvements: you may wish to carry your concerns to the powers that be at Discover Blogs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ (or higher up the food chain).

Probably one reason Phil has gone to a sponsored site like this is so he can focus on the writing and let other professional infrastructure support people deal with the reader preferences for formatting, style, access and such.

While I’m sure he’ll do his best to transmit your requests to the decision-makers, you might have more success, and cause less effort to Phil, makinge your own case with the folks at Discover Magazine.

By: BigBob

BigBob — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:52:14 +0000

Ok, had a browse, looks cool. Just one thing BA, you need to make a new post ASAP because as I write, your top entry still says you’re going offline for a few hours. Plus, I think Discover aught to give you some front page launch publicity, e.g. welcome BA, our new blogger (at the moment you aren’t listed on the front page). Maybe they’d be good enough to do a launch when you are settled in. Cool.
Bob(Big)

By: darkwinter

darkwinter — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:48:06 +0000

Congratulations on the new digs, BA – here’s hoping it’s a huge success!

But how could it not be?

By: Astrogeek

Astrogeek — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:42:34 +0000

Firefox sees the feed for this blog as http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/feed/

Hope this helps the others looking for the feed.

By: BigBob

BigBob — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:42:13 +0000

Now I see. I bet this will increase your hits big time. Certainly increase the hits on Discover that’s for sure. I don’t know what Discover magazine is, so about to find out. Scuse me while I browse.
Congrats BA BTW.
Bob(Big)

By: Yoeman

Yoeman — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:37:09 +0000

Wow, cool! Good job Dr Plait!

By: DadaGuru

DadaGuru — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:35:17 +0000

Phil, best wishes on the new site/location/sponsor. I’ll just echo the others with my hope that this new set up won’t inhibit your outspoken style.
Blog on my good man!

By: 01101001

01101001 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:35:05 +0000

Just to figure out the timestamps, what zone they are (my guess, Eastern Time) I submit this to cyberspace at the sound of the tone, 1435 Pacific Daylight Time.

By: spyderkl

spyderkl — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:32:15 +0000

This looks great! Congratulations!