{"id":32565,"date":"2011-03-13T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/puny-banner-and-tip-jar-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T15:43:01","slug":"puny-banner-and-tip-jar-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/puny-banner-and-tip-jar-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"Puny Banner and tip jar | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of house-keeping things.<\/p>

Firstly, if you cast your eyes a few pixels upwards, you’ll notice the snazzy new banner<\/strong>. All the Discover blogs now have them to give us a bit more of an individual feel. I love mine\/them. The designer’s done a great job with reconciling the “rocket science” bit with the fact that I write almost entirely about biology. You can see the rest of the logos on the sidebar, and I’ll probably be doing a Cafepress store at some point.<\/p>

Secondly, you might have noticed that there’s also a “Support Science Writers<\/strong>” box in the sidebar. I’ve added this in light of my new initiative to voluntarily pay for the best science writing that I read<\/a>. In the comments, people suggested various ways that these micropayments could be done easily, but all the best suggestions involve adding some sort of code to one’s site.<\/p>

While a simple solution may take some more work, I’ve implemented these Paypal buttons as a temporary fix. The top one goes to the writers I pick every month, distributed equally (any donations this month will go to February’s picks, and so on). The bottom one goes to me and I’ll match a third of the donations and send that to the chosen writers too.<\/p>

Both go to my Paypal account but they’re tagged differently so I can sort through all the donations and distribute them easily. This isn’t ideal by any means, but like many things on the Internet, I thought I’d give it a go and see what happens. So if any of you would like to support NERS or any of the other great blogs that I link to, please feel free to contribute. There is, of course, no expectation to do this.<\/p>

For reference, here are the people who I’ve donated to this month:<\/p>