[R] Announcing a new R news site: R-bloggers.com

[Daniel Nordlund]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
> On Behalf Of Tal Galili
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 11:38 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Announcing a new R news site: R-bloggers.com
> 
> Hello everyone.
> After some good time of work, I am proud to present: www.r-bloggers.com
> 
> What is R-Bloggers.com?
> 
> R-Bloggers.com hopes to serve the R community by presenting (in one place)
> all the new articles (posts) written (in English) about R in the "R
> blogosphere".
> How does R-Bloggers operate?
> 
> This site aggregates feeds (only with permission!) from participating R
> blogs. The beginnings of each participating blogs posts will
> automatically
> be displayed on the main page with links to the original posts; inside
> every
> post there is a link to the original blog and links to other related
> articles.  All participating blogs will have links in the Contributors
> section of our sidebar
> What does R-Bloggers offer the community?
> 
>    - Discover: If every blogger will add itself, we will all be able to
> find
>    new R blogs (which is hard to find on the web, if you ever tried). The
>    site also allows to search in the content of the bloggers (although for
>    searches of older content - you better go to the blogs themselves or
> wait
>    for the customized google search box I will add in the future)
>    - Follow: Enter your e-mail and subscribe to receive a daily digest
> with
>    teasers of new posts from participating blogs.  You will more easily
> get a
>    sense of hot topics in the R blogosphere.
>    - Connect: Click on Fan this site to become a "fan" of R Bloggers.
> You
>    can friend other people and share thoughts on our wall. Or just by
> leaving
>    comments on the blog.
>    - Participate: Add your R blog to get increased visibility (for readers
>    and search engines) with permanent links on our Contributors sidebar.
> Your
>    blog will also gain visibility via our e-mail digest and through your
>    presence on the main page with posts.
> 
> How do I become a participating blog in R Bloggers?
> 
> To add your blog, simply click on Add your
> blog!<http://www.r-bloggers.com/add-your-blog/> and
> enter the required information.  I will review your link and approve it in
> a
> timely fashion.
> How can I help?
> 
> We share readers to gain readers!  If you are interested and havent
> already, please submit your blog <http://www.r-bloggers.com/add-your-
> blog/>.
>  Also please consider putting *a link from your blog* to R-Bloggers from
> your sidebar (we do the same for you); you can even put up a post about us
> -
> if each blogger will do so - all of us will gain from it.
>  Who started R-Bloggers (and way)?
> 
> R Bloggers was started by Tal Galili <http://talgalili.com/>. After
> searching for numerous R blogs, Tal (well, me) decided that there must be
> more R blogs our there then he knows about, and maybe the best way for
> finding them is to make them find him. You can reach Tal via the
> Contact<http://www.r-bloggers.com/contact-us/> page
> (or just e-mail him: tal.galili at gmail.com).
> Extra thanks and a deceleration of "good intentions"
> I would like to thank John, Yihui, Jaanus and Taiyun for being the first
> bloggers to allow me to enlist their blogs to the project.
> There are more R bloggers out there that I know of, and didn't get to ask
> for permission. I apologies to you for not contacting you personally,
> still
> If you are one such blogger, and you want to join the site, please feel
> welcome to submit your blog <http://www.r-bloggers.com/add-your-blog/>.
> 
> I hope this e-mail was not an abuse of the R mailing list. Since I
> intended
> this project for the good of the R community I allowed myself to publish
> the
> site here, so I hope it wouldn't upset anyone.
> 
> Best wishes to all,
> Tal
> 
> 

I went to the site listed above and ZoneAlarm on my computer reported the site as suspicious (I can count on one hand the number of times I have received that warning).  My question: do you know what your site is doing that might be considered suspicious?

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA USA