Dave Winer questions a recent New York Times piece about ScienceBlogs.

Bora provides his reasons for leaving ScienceBlogs.

Adam Bly, founder of ScienceBlogs, writes his first blog post, detailing the relationship between science and culture.

"The reputation that ScienceBlogs had built meant that you could trust the veracity and the integrity of those who appeared on the network. It was this reputation that Pepsi wanted to buy and which Seed was only too happy to sell them."

"To my mind, one of the best ways to ensure quality both among bloggers and in the mainstream media is for bloggers and journalists to be critical of each other—and themselves."

"What's needed, it seems to me, is a simple blogging platform, probably WordPress or Drupal, that could host all the science bloggers who wanted to be free of the corporate situation."

Very poor decision by Scienceblogs to sell blogging space to Pepsi Co. The message seems to be keep your PR out of our newswire.