A Quick January Update
Jan 19, 2007 site news
There have been a few changes to the site that I’ve made over the past couple months that I wanted to make everyone aware of. For starters, if you haven’t noticed lately, I have set up the RSS feed to be handled exclusively by FeedBurner. This allows me to keep an eye on how many of you are reading about epigenetics through an RSS reader. I read this and many other sites through my preferred RSS reader, NetNewsWire Lite for Mac OS X. More importantly, the RSS feed is now a full feed, so if you were annoyed by the summaries I used in the past, the full content is now available through the feed. I hope that is helpful.
Also, you may have noticed that the site has picked up some more sponsorships and advertisers. For instance, we are a sponsoring publication of Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Epigenomics conference, and we are prominently advertising the conference through March. In addition, there are sponsored text links in the sidebar from CalculateMe.com, Medical Software Associates, Health Insurance Choice, and Red Apple Living.
As the site has grown tremendously since its inception in March 2006, there is a likely possibility that we will have to move to a new server in the near future to accommodate the extra bandwidth requirements. These sponsorships will make that transition possible.
In addition, I have moved the list of epigenetics labs (that is still in its infancy) from the sidebar to a separate page. This was done in order to reduce the load time for pages across the site. I am still working on adding labs as I come across them; if you have any additions, please drop me a line.
I decided last month to add a short profile and picture of myself to the sidebar in order to help readers easily see who the author is and hopefully will encourage readers to discover more about how the content is prepared and selected. I attempted to clarify this in this post, but figured a more prominent display would be more effective. Plus, if there was any confusion about whether this was a blog or a news site that could potentially be a blog, that should clear things up.
As far as posting frequency, I have tried to be more consistent with the number of posts each week. I hope that you will bear with the occasional quiet days as I attempt to keep up with courses this semester and continue work on writing a research paper. But, rest assured, that we will try to keep up with all of the major developments in epigenetics. In fact, there have been some big papers that have not gotten their due attention here, but Mr. Rekow and I are preparing to review several of them in full as part of the upcoming Just Science week.
Finally, I decided to experiment with a syndicated feed of links gathered by Environmental Health Sciences. The feed, available in the sidebar on the right, is currently set to grab articles related to gene expression, which can also include areas of epigenetics. I’m monitoring the quality of the links in terms of relevancy for our audience. But you may be interested by some of the articles available there, even if they’re not directly related to epigenetics research and discoveries.
With that said, please feel free to leave any feedback, suggestions, complaints, etc. in the comments. I’m listening.
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