Biology News Net

[FiReaNG3L]

Fellow Biology Lovers,

 

I'm here to inform you that a growing community, Biology News Net, is needing YOU!

 

Features include :

 

- Daily updated biology news from various sources

- Most popular news of the week / month

- A comments / forum system which allows you to easily express yourself on current biology news and start your own topics.

- Category specific pages covering news & discussion about: HIV, Biology, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Environment, Gene Therapy, Health&Medecine, Microarrays, Microbiology, Molecular & Cell Biology, Stem cell research

- A RSS Feed for your convenience

 

We're constantly adding features and are very open to user suggestions / needs, so feel free to express yourself!

 

I'm a PhD student, and my goal is to build a community for all biology lovers on the net, so come and see what we have to offer!

[Sayonara]

How impolite.

[rakuenso]

what exactly is your PhD in? marketing?

[Firedragon52]

I like biology...I'll register. Couldn't do any harm.

[Sayonara]

I'm sure it's a great resource, but you know - if you're going to advertise on a similar site, you bloody well ask first. It's just good manners (and covered in our terms of use).

[Ophiolite]

I think it's to the credit of the admins here that they haven't immediately deleted the opening post and banned the poster. If I recall the terms of use Sayonara referred to they would have been well within their rights. Until I see a public apology from FiReaNG3L for these bad manners I shan't be looking at their site, let alone registering.

[FiReaNG3L]

I'm sorry that you interpreted my post as rude; I did read the rules and figured out it was ok, since it was a non-commercial Biology website.

 

2.d) Personal/Corporate Advertising. Links should be to relevant information; no commercial spam.

 

The site was featured two days ago in The Scientist ("The power of the Blog") and is totally dedicated to provide a relevant source of biology information / news. I'm improving the site daily and hope to build a community around it where people can discuss / express their opinions on daily topics. Finding people interested and knowledgeable in the field is not an easy task; this is the main purpose of this post on this board.

 

Thanks for not deleting the post immediatly; if you juge that it's inappropriate, feel free to delete it, I guess I can't blame you

 

I'm doing my PhD in Retrovirology, and not in Marketing, by the way

[atinymonkey]

FiReaNG3L - Your registration system is not working, which may be why you are having fewer members join than you hoped.

[FiReaNG3L]

  atinymonkey said:

FiReaNG3L - Your registration system is not working, which may be why you are having fewer members join than you hoped.

 

Thanks for pointing that out... it seems that a mod_rewrite rule in my htaccess was wrongfully rewriting the link to http://www.biologynews.net/profile.php instead of http://www.biologynews.net/forum/profile.php. Weird... but it should work ok now

[Sayonara]

  FiReaNG3L said:

I'm sorry that you interpreted my post as rude; I did read the rules and figured out it was ok, since it was a non-commercial Biology website.

I didn't say rude, I said impolite. Believe me I know how hard it is to get members for this sort of thing - I had the same problem with an online project when I did my dissertation.