Article Published!

I got an email yesterday that an article I had under review has been accepted. This is cool for a number of reasons. First, it's always cool to have something accepted. Second, this is the first article that I've had as first/solo author that has been accepted at the first place I submitted it. I almost always get rejected and then submit to another journal before something hits, but this was accepted at the first journal. It's happened one other time, but I was a third author, so I'm not sure that counts. The third reason this acceptance is cool is because I have defined myself by a mainline of research and two sidelines of related research. This article gets one of the sidelines rolling. It also doesn't hurt that it was coauthored by a student, kind of a gold star next to my name.

On a sad note, one of the blogs that I follow semi-regularly has been removed from the web. It wasn't a top-notch blog, but it had good ideas from time to time, and I occasionally linked to it from my other blog (www.myofficebuzz.com). The blog typically consisted of a variety of posts from a number of different authors, and I can't help but wonder if the blogger was plagiarizing and was removed. The bummer is that several links from my blog don't work now.