Liz Allen's blog

Today's the day. If you are going to enter and possibly win a bag of PLoS swag, we'd like to read your blog post. If you are new to the competition you can read up on it here. Some early entries include:

My initial early attempts to start Twittering for PLoS were woefully inadequate. I have since cleaned up the evidence of my sad and sorry start. Not only could I not understand what I was meant to be using it for (or even how to use it at all) but I was surrounded by other people sharing the personal minutiae of their lives on a minute by minute basis - why would anyone be interested in that I thought?

PLoS ONE turns two this December. For our community celebration we're going to run our second synchroblogging competition. The first one was organized to celebrate the first ever Open Access Day in October this year and resulted in 400 posts and two winners Greg Laden and Dorothea Salo who each received some nice swag. This time, we've partnered up with our friends at researchblogging.org, the site that aggregates blogs about peer-reviewed research, to create this competition.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, is getting ready for this year's ASTMH meeting (New Orleans, Dec 7-11), where you’ll find us at Booth 101 in the exhibition hall.

We are continuing our series in which we look at PLoS ONE articles that have a combination of good publicly available article level metrics (usage data: page views; citations (from Google), media coverage, comments and ratings etc).