Evolution of a Blog

by ScienceNrrd 2/2010

For all of you who have been following my blog, I want to say thank you! This blog began as a small experimental project I undertook for a creative writing class while working towards my degree in both Biology and in Scientific and Creative Writing. It turned out to be a lot of fun, and I feel I've found a great tool for one of my goals: to make biology fun, interesting, and accessible to laypeople.  The underlying goal behind the project itself was to become familiarized with the medium of blogging - to get to know what it is all about, and what I can do with it.  http://aphroditian.blogspot.com/ (the original url for this blog) was a great introduction for me into this particular sphere of writing. 

I now have the opportunity to continue this blog as part of another project. My basic aim with this blog is still the same: to educate people about biology, while making it enjoyable, accessible, and interesting, but creating an independent study revolving around this blog, it is my hope to broaden it into something bigger, more expansive, and ultimately, to take it to a higher level. Now that I've begun to understand the basics about blogging, I can delve more deeply into how to expand my blog's reachability and readership, what makes a blog truly successful, and what form that success might take.  Will that be in the number of hits I generate?  Will this blog be quoted or used somewhere else?  Will it inspire people to want to learn more about science?  Whatever it is, I will be here working on my blog, making changes - sometimes openly, sometimes behind the scenes technical changes – and, enjoying the experience, of working on the evolution of my blog.  I hope you continue to join me as http://aphroditian.blogspot.com/ becomes http://creativebiology.blogspot.com/, the first of many new, interesting, and exciting changes this blog will see.