Some of the reporters over at Florida Today have started a new group space blog, called The Flame Trench. The name seems appropriate, because they seem to have gotten into a little pissing contest with Keith Cowing (via whom I learned of its existence). Though, as I mentioned in a comment there (unpublished as of yet), I wish that people would learn the difference between "infer" and "imply."

Anyway, welcome to the neighborhood, guys (and gals, if there are any).

[Update at 1 PM EST]

I just got an explanatory email from John Kelly:

Sorry it took a pissing contest for some folks to find us. But we're always glad if people are reading and visiting. There's three guys, one lady, writing for the Flame Trench. Our space team is veteran aerospace reporter Todd Halvorson, space, science and tech writer Christine Kridler, our Washington correspondent Larry Wheeler, and myself, the humble space editor. The blog is an add-on to our existing space news site.

Now, if they could just fix their commenting software so that it will capitalize my first and last name...

To quote Cerebus, "The speaker implies, the listener infers".

I would think it mandatory that a blog named "The Flame Trench" start wih a "little pissing contest."

;-)

Perhaps. Think of it as their noise suppression system...

Before they decided to take a shot at me, no one was commenting on their blog. They took their shot, I posted a link and suddenly people are posting - in response to the specific post where they took their jab at me.

Kelly admits here that this 'contest' is how his blog got noticed here but, in contrast, he tried to deny this, telling me "The number of hits you sent is just in the background noise of our daily traffic."