Postgenomic organizes blog posts into four different types: reviews of papers, conference reports, original research and everything else. It can’t do this automatically - it needs a little prompting from you, the blogger.

Why do we do it? Posts that are reviews of a particular paper can be listed above posts that cite the paper in passing. Posts about a particular conference can be grouped together. Original research can be timestamped and archived properly. We’re still working on these benefits... but it’s good practice to start making the changes on your blog now. At worst it makes your posts easier to find.

If a post is about one paper in particular (or even multiple papers) then you should mark as such. To do this, simply add rev=’review’ to the HTML of the links that points to the paper(s) that you are reviewing, like so:

<a rev='review' href='url of paper'>Some paper</a>''

Alternatively you can use the hReview microformat:

<div class='hreview'>
<h2 class='summary'>This paper rocks!</h2>
<a class='item url' href='url of paper'>Some paper</a>''
</div>

The simplest way to do this is to tag your post with conference

Alternatively (better) add rel=’conference’ the HTML of the link that points to the conference website, like so:

<a rel='conference' href='url of conference website'>Some conference</a>''

Original research posts are those that contain actual research data (think preprints on a blog). The data in question should be yours.

Simply tag your post with original_research