Wordpress - friend or foe?

I think, hope, pray that I will learn to love my new Wordpress blog.

The idea is that is nattily combines my interest in this new-ish phenomenon of positive psychology and my concern for the environment with my need to write a uni blog - all rolled up into one neat package.

It's still in the developmental stages. Ahem. But I wrote two little blogposts tonight and will show it some love over the coming weeks, months and so on. I'm also looking forward to properly uploading multi-media content on there in a player that is not incredibly irritating for visitors.

I will still be blogging on science journalism here – next posts are on presentation of climate change sceptics in the press – so feel free to enjoy both blogs as and when the whim should overcome you.

Ta-ra

UPDATE: New blog will be about all things tree, wood, forest and jungle. Probably not tree hugging. Although I won't rule it out.

A blog about a blog: Love and creativity

This week I had my first blog on Comment is Free on the Guardian online. It was based on a research paper that I managed to get my sticky mitts on into the psychological states of love and creativity. And also sex and analysis. You can learn more if you click through. But you'll be disappointed if you think I'm going to write about my sex life, as many of the commenters on the blog seemed to feel the urge to. So no titillation there, sorry.

On my MA course we've been learning how to use our recorders (the recording things for radio-type ones not the ones you learnt how to play baa baa black sheep on aged seven). I took to the streets of Farringdon armed with my headphones, recorder and mic to quiz some people about what they thought of the link between love and creativity. And here is what I heard: