(This was an article in the Skeptologists topic, but it's big enough to merit its own topic.)

The BA Blog has a new home: at Discover Magazine

Discover Magazine: Bad Astronomy Blog

Congratulations to the BA.

(Now, maybe when the BA Blog gets Digg'd/Slashdot'd it won't cause BAUTForum to come to a crawl.)

Edit: From the Discover Magazine incarnation of the blog:

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BABBlog is still off-line! I am suffering severe withdrawal!

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Briefly, http://www.badastronomy.com was redirecting to the Discover Magazine Bad Astronomy Blog.

At this moment, http://www.badastronomy.com is the BA Blog contents that were moved to Discover. Right now both blogs have the same stuff -- except comments are turned on at Discover. I expect the old blog location to start redirecting soon to the new blog location.

And, for a while recently http://www.badastronomy.com was not found, maybe due to server load.

I think one would be wise to update links to the BA Blog:
Discover Magazine Bad Astronomy Blog

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Could someone give me some insight about what is Discover Magazine and what could Phil get out of the decision moving his blog into this huge site?
Oh, and will he be able to change the look and feel, its awfully ugly and anonymous like it is now. Its like he moved from his single home into a skyscraper...

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I'd expect him to get revenue. Money. Income. Better than the ad money he got from his own efforts. He's bringing eyeballs and even respectability to Discover. They should reward him.

I'd expect him to get some support. Maybe. I don't know how these things work, but I'd suspect it to be Discover-run servers now, and maybe the bloggers get some infrastructure assistance, and can worry more about writing and less about tweaking the software and responding to reader problems.

And, I speculate. For sure. I don't know. I expect he made a business decision to go with the new home, for business reasons.

Discover is a brand with a pretty good reputation. Wikipedia: Discover (magazine)

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Even PZ Myers' Pharyngula Blog notes it in blog article More competition!:

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Now, again, http://www.badastronomy.com/ (home of the old Bad Astronomy Blog) and http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog are redirecting to Discover Magazine Bad Astronomy Blog.

The rest of the Bad Astronomy site is still there, with Bad Astronomy misconceptions, movies, bite-size astronomy, media, and other familiar content.

And I just noticed this blog comment from the other half of the BA couplet:

Let's see... 3 hours... posted maybe around 1600 EDT... 1900 EDT arrival... give him some time to decompress... if there's not too much cat poop... perhaps we will hear an update tonight.

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Well, I can't find the BA's blog on the Discovery site. The links take me to a page with nothing on it but a notice that "Registration has been disabled". If I go to the blog page, there's nothing about BA there.

What's the deal?

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I saw that page briefly at one point. Can't recall where I was intending to go, or how it repaired itself. (Oh, and it's "Discover".)

This has worked many times today, and just worked, for me: Discover Magazine Bad Astronomy Blog

Could it be a cookie problem?

Perhaps you can tunnel down to it, by entering at the Discover Magazine main blog page. There is currenty there a prominent link to the BA Blog.

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Phil's returned to Colorado and is blogging at the new place:

BA Blog (the Discover Magazine edition): Discover Bad Astronomy!:

More there.

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Still no joy. I tried both links (thanks for those). The first just gets me that "registration not required" page, and the second -- which does show the Discovery Blogs main page, has no link to the BA Blog. It does show 80 Beats, Better Planet, Reality Base, and Discoblog.



I also tried searching the Discover site for Bad Astronomy -- and all I found was an article that linked to the old site.

Added: I just sent email to the webmaster. Maybe they have the secret knowledge. Now if I just knew the handshake...

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Oh, I've noticed that some readers who've been locked out of commenting on the old blog, probably due to some malfeasance of the anti-spam software, are able to comment on the new blog, for instance JanieBelle.

Maybe there is hope for Sticks.

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FWIW, I got into the BA Blog just fine today. I suppose it was just a startup problem.

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Welcome to the collective! Bzzz!

For those who still can't get in, the apparent message is: hang in there. Contacting the webmaster, though, might be worth a shot.

Here's what you've been missing:

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It appears that the new blog location does not contain a link to the BAUT forum, as the old one did.

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Phil said he's working on his list o' links that will appear on the right-hand side. It might appear there.

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It had better...

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He just wrote of one benefit in BA Blog: I’m going to Comic Con!

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Not just for Sticks. I can post comments
The first time I am able to send comments!!!

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When I go to www.badastronomy.com, I se the Discover Bad Astronomy blog page, but I can only see the titles of the blog entries. Everything else is blank.

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As you might guess, it looks OK for me. I was going to suggest you contact the webmaster, maybe to provide some screen shots, so they could adjust their site -- but I found a problem of my own: all the links in the footer (Privacy - Terms - Reader Services - Subscribe Today - Advertise - About Us) link to the page, the Bad Astronomy Blog page itself.

If you see a generic Discover Magazine Blog error, say one that asserts itself not only in Bad Astronomy, but also, for instance The Loom (or others listed at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/), it might be most expedient to take it to the webmaster (if you can figure out how -- I can't right now). Writing to the BA would probably work, too (BA contact info).

Ah, I found a contact page for Discover. Webmaster email is: webmaster at discovermagazine.com.

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Not long after writing that, I emailed a problem description to the webmaster. This morning I had email indicating the problem was being passed on to someone to fix, and when I examined the links just now, they were fixed.

So, that webmaster email address can be effective. I'd recommend it for minor suggestions that might not need the BA's influence or input to accomplish, maybe yielding the BA more time to concentrate on the major matters -- like content.

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At least my comments are no longer marked as spam!

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