Bravo! Well said!
May I include your Blog on my website?
Sure, feel free.
That last point is an extremely good one - as a member of that nebulous bod 'the general public' I've found science blogs a revelation.
But you are an exhibitionist, aren't you? I hope you are 
Outeast--good to hear it! Even as a scientist, I find them very helpful, especially for breaking down interesting research that's far from my field (such as, for example, most of what PZ writes about!).
coturnix--heh heh heh...*blush*
rolf should blog. the audience factor in a blog forces me to put the half-formed ideas clanking around in my head into coherent form. that's why i do it. if he'd been forced to put his snide remarks before an audience before he said them, they probably would have stayed in draft form.
also, blogs make the "information overload" entertaining. we pick the stuff that's actually interesting and we blog about it with enthusiasm and the best pictures we can find.
That's a good point. A lot of my longer posts I usually work on for awhile, taking them mentally from nebulous idea to a more outlined structure before I even start typing anything. And I know I have critics to answer to, so I try not to say anything too incredibly stupid. 
Blogs like yours and PZ's & Orac's etc., seem to me a first wave in getting us "general public"ers more awareness of substantial elements of reality to which, in the past, we have mostly been oblivious.
I've always said that no one should be allowed to graduate HS without the equivalent of an LPN's knowledge of how to care for our human anatomy. That alone would obviate a major portion of a seemingly intractable Social ill in all types of economies; Medical coverage. People who know the diff 'tween the common cold and influenza wouldn't waste MD's time and their own time & money.
Blog on! Please! lol
blogs GREAT BLOG! I will be back!
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