Tyler Cowen writes:

Andrew Gelman will have a second blog. I don’t yet understand the forthcoming principle of individuation across the two blogs.

I have to admit I haven’t thought this through at any level of detail. When the Science Blogs people asked me if I wanted to blog there, I canvassed my co-bloggers, and most of them thought it was a good idea. The Science Blog would reach a new audience, but I didn’t want to abandon the blog here. (This blog is an extension of my research persona, which seems about right to me. On Science Blogs, I’m just one of seventy bloggers, which is fine–I think a bunch of those blogs get a lot more readers than I do–but it didn’t seem right as a blogging home for me.)

So, how does the content differ? My plan was–is–for the Science Blog to be optional and a portal on to this main blog. Thus, I’ll post links here to the Science Blogs content so you can click over and take a look at it if you’d like. I don’t really have any plans to separate content, except of course that I won’t be putting the technical statistical stuff over there.

I might just start crossposting everything there on to here–that’s what I do when I post on New Majority, 538, and the Monkey Cage–but for now I’ll try to have some material that’s only over there. It seems only fair, since they gave me a blog there, that I post some unique content.

I’m still not sure if this new blog makes sense. New Majority is fine–I sent them material on occasion and they decide whether to post it–and 538 is great–again, most of my stuff doesn’t really fit there, but every week or so I have something that’s highly relevant to current political events, and then I post there. The Monkey Cage is no big deal because I can crosspost for them whenever–the blog has its own existence without needing too much from me. But this new blog . . . well, we’ll see how it goes. It’s a bid to spread the statistical gospel to a wider audience.