Hi there, io9 visitors! There’s been quite a lot of you visiting the 2008 Hugo Awards Countdown, and I hope you enjoyed the series (which is going to take a finisher in the form of a small series talking about the novel nominees one by one).
You may or may not be wondering about the nature of Spontaneous Derivation, and why a blog-about-blogging is suddenly swerving into the science fiction/fantasy territory. And I’m sure some of my regular readers are wondering about this too. And both of you may be wondering about what’s to come—for after all, Spontaneous Derivation has had a sordid history of not remaining what it currently is. And the About page is sorely out of date at the time of this writing.
The reason behind the evolution of Spontaneous Derivation (such as it is) comes from a development of my understanding of the concept of the blog.
Spontaneous ∂erivation 