{"id":5609,"date":"2010-10-25T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2010-10-25T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:12:41","slug":"hey-we-got-nominated-for-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/25\/hey-we-got-nominated-for-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey We Got Nominated for Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually I don&#8217;t pimp out blog competitions, as too often they end up honoring crackpots, climate denialists, etc.  But here (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/10\/25\/pick-your-favorite-science-site-for-the-physics-orgs-awards\/\">Phil<\/a>) is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.org\/toplistdetail.asp?id=9\">contest sponsored by Physics.org<\/a>, where the other entries are all very good blogs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/startswithabang\/\">Starts With a Bang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/dotphysics\">Dot Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com\/\">Physics Central<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Admittedly they left off some other very awesome blogs, but there&#8217;s always next year.  So, yeah;  I&#8217;m happy to advertise blog competitions in which I wouldn&#8217;t mind losing.<\/p>\n<p>There are also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physics.org\/featuredetail.asp?id=52\">competitions<\/a> for best podcast, best online magazine, etc.  Let your voice be heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually I don&#8217;t pimp out blog competitions, as too often they end up honoring crackpots, climate denialists, etc. But here (via Phil) is a contest sponsored by Physics.org, where the other entries are all very good blogs: Starts With a Bang Dot Physics Bad Astronomy Physics Central Admittedly they left off some other very awesome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}