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Today marks the second anniversary of this blog. And this second year we characterize by their lights, but also (and perhaps more importantly) for their shadows.

Throughout all this time we can say that somehow we have become a source of evolutionary and geological information. We are consistently in the top of the English-language blogs paleontological Wikio cited as (sometimes even we are first.) Sometimes we have become among the top 20 English-speaking blogosphere blogs scientists, although usually lately is to be among the 30-40 most frequently mentioned.

This second year to create new sections has led to the strengthening of existing ones ( Distinguished Scientists, communicators Excepionales , Interviews from Beyond , Great Sites ). However, we could not avoid the temptation to devote to Referral Programs on television to promote popular science, in its various facets. We hope that time will allow us to continue with this task adequately disclose those initiatives, people and most important sites that have or had for the scientific awakening of our society ...

We exceeded the barrier of 30,000 visits, which means an average of slightly more visitors than our blog EIIGPBS . This is clear that we have reached one of the objectives we had when we started this journey, to increase our range of action and more readers are interested in the blog.

But we have the rest of objectives? Let's see: 1 .-

Expand topics: In this case it is clear that it does have more than met the target. In "MAS / BS" have tried from dinosaurs to hominids from evolution to astronomy, from geology to nature conservation ... a plethora of issues that we do not fit in the Somosaguas Blog.

2 .- Higher levels of "hearing" We've said it before ... conseguidísimo. In fact, we even have a few followers regulars that we see in our section below on the right.

3 .- Visibility: It is intimately linked to the above, but with the difference that the existence This blog should have attracted people to the blog of EIIGPBS. We have no real data on this issue, but it is true that a considerable percentage of visits Somosaguas Blog are from this "MAS / BS" (although it will come more from "The Pakozoico " , " News PMMV " or " Paleozapping " ). In any case, this is perhaps the weakest of all we wanted to get ... and interestingly, was supposed to be the main cause of the creation of "Beyond Somosaguas (UCM) Beyond Somosaguas" .

Finally, comment is one of the worst problems of our blog (perhaps really the only). In this second year, the number of entries we've seen come to light from these pages has been very (very) lower than that seen in the first year. Specifically, only 54 entries have been published, compared with 110 that was when we celebrated the first anniversary . This is less than half, is that the drafters ever spend less time writing in this blog (even some that have not yet been released). The reasons are varied, from the burdens that are adaptations of the Bologna Process imposed on students of the Faculty of Geology of the UCM (surprising because none of our writers are immersed in it-but it still seems to affect-) to the administrative, educational and scientific tables that fill the researchers who are part the kitch the blog editor.

Well, one can only leave with the hope that this little problem is solved and next year we can say proudly that "Beyond Somosaguas (UCM) Beyond Somosaguas" is that smokes the large number of entries that is, their high quality and excellent reception that readers are leave us your comments ...