Open Thread Feb 29 - March 6, 2016

Elo

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I am torn as to if I should tie my astrobio bloggery to my professional identity. Primarily because such bloggery is known here and in one or two other online spaces in which I also occasionally piss people off.

What are your reasons for wanting to link now? E.g. do you hope to be seen as broad thinking. Or do you want to pull traffic both ways?

You can also try semi-linking: Add the other blog prominently in the blogroll.

0Lumifer10y

I would recommend against it. "I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record" :-/

0ChristianKl10y

In general I think the likely benefits from the linked identities will outweigh the costs. Being known is often better than being unknown even if the reason for which you known isn't super-special.