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I write the blog by keeping an eye on the online first section of the ADC website. Currently I don’t blog about Archimedes papers - there is a much better place for that. Also, I don’t tend to blog about reviews, as, well, what is there to abbreviate? I blog the perspectives and the leading articles, since they are more focused than the reviews.

What can you do here? Well, you can comment, informally. BMJ publishing group rules rightly insist that the comments are moderated - which means that I look at them before they go live on the site; this is to prevent spam, rudeness, libel and all that sort of nasty stuff. I’ll probably remove comments like “Cool study” - since it is unlikely to advance our understanding of the area much further. But, if you want to post pretty much anything else, well, go for it. It’s not like the eLetters which can graduate to proper Journal Letters - if you want to ask a daft question or it simply doesn’t make sense, chances are someone else is thinking the same. We might even be able to get the authors of the papers in here - annoyed at what I’ve written, or how someone else has interpreted their paper. So ask away.

Bob Phillips and I wrote about the Precis and Archimedes blogs here if you’d like a bit more information.