P212121.com 1st Birthday
A year ago today this site was created.
P212121 has been more successful than I would have ever imagined. My primary goal has been to help someone in the field of macromolecular crystallography. I hoped that by bring together resources, creating tutorials and answering questions that this website would be helpful.
I also need to say thank you. I have had many readers contribute so much time and effort answering my questions and sharing their experiences. My friends that have share with me more than I given with a comment here, thank you.
If you like numbers, the current RSS count here considering only Google is at 140 as a (probably bad) reference point Acta Crystallographica Section D is at 93.
The blogging community has been wonderful and for fear of leaving someone off of a list, I hope a general thanks will suffice.
A number of crystallographic companies have shown their link love:
Emerald Biosystems
Hampton Research
Microlytic
Rigaku
This site was also recently included in the science Alltop, which is cool resource for finding science information.
What’s next? I have a lot in the pipeline, but before we get there I would love to hear from you. Have an idea or suggestion to make this site better? If we have spent the last couple of months together and haven’t met just a Hi or Happy Birthday 
would be great.
Thanks again.
chempilot
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:03 PM #
congrats! love the site….keep up the good work!
Luc
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:53 PM #
Congratulations!
I’ve learned a lot with your blog in the past year.
Special thanks for all these useful tools hanging around on the web.
Stephen Curry
February 23rd, 2010 at 10:33 AM #
Many happy returns – keep up the great work!
harvardbmw
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:28 PM #
Happy birthday!
Good luck!
Sean
February 24th, 2010 at 11:14 AM #
@chempilot
Planning on getting up some more CCP4 info for you this year
@Luc
Hi and thanks for the feedback. I sometimes wonder if the database/tool posts are boring. I think to myself of how much time someone would save if they knew some of these resources existed so have kept them up. Thanks for letting me know you are finding them helpful.
@Stephen
Thanks for the kind words. I found your post today fascinating concerning science libel on your blog.
@harvardbmw
Thanks for posting that introductory video on Vimeo earlier this year (think it’s gone now, but nonetheless).
Stephen Curry
February 24th, 2010 at 11:21 AM #
You’re very welcome Sean. The reach of the libel laws of England and Wales is fearsomely long. There is one case at the moment in which a UK cardiologist (Peter Wilmshurst) is being sued for remarks he made at a conference in the US that were written up in a US publication by a Canadian journalist! There was no question of action being taken in the US where there is better protection of freedom of speech.
This so-called libel tourism (where the action takes place in the UK, even though the ‘offence’ was given elsewhere) is one of the major flaws in our current legislation. It can and has affected US citizens.
Singh’s case has help to spark a campaign for libel reform. There is a drive to get 100,000 signatures on a petition to help force the hand of parliament. Signatories do NOT have to be UK citizens so if you wanted to sign (or even to encourage your readers to do so), please go to http://www.libelreform.or!
Cheers – Stephen
Stephen Curry
February 24th, 2010 at 11:23 AM #
Oops! – that link doesn’t seem to work.
Just use: http://www.libelreform.org
Andrea Cavagnino
February 25th, 2010 at 11:02 AM #
Happy Birthday
Greatings for this masterpiece
Nathan Luebbering
February 25th, 2010 at 1:07 PM #
Congrats! You set the bar high for year 2!
Mr. Potato Head
February 25th, 2010 at 3:13 PM #
Congrats on a great first year!
I’m still waiting on a slice of cake…… (:
Maria
February 25th, 2010 at 4:59 PM #
Well done! My highlight has been your analysis of the “fraud” proteins. Keep up the good work!
ho
March 1st, 2010 at 7:24 PM #
keep up the good work. always fun to visit here