Psychology Today Online
Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 2:17PM Several weeks ago, I received an email from the editor of the widely circulated print publication, Psychology Today.
Hi Kurt, I'm a fan of this blog and wonder whether you'd be interested in cross-posting to psychology today's high-traffic site. We remunerate based on page views. If this is of interest, I'll share more details. Regardless I'll continue to enjoy this blog.
Kaja Perina, editor in chief, Psychology Today
After exchanging a few emails with Ms Perina, who has apparently been a reader for some time, I have decided to start cross-posting some of my articles on Psychology Today Online. This site has very high traffic, getting about 1.5 million unique visitors a month. I have been assured of complete editorial control, which guarantees that there will be no references to or images of "cave men", and I am free to publish the same content anywhere I like with complete editorial control.
I have often stated I would be reluctant to be interviewed by some of the more odious organs of the mainstream media, given their penchant for cartoonization and trivialization of ancestral diets and health.
However, I have always been excited about broadening the audience for the blog in a fashion I can control, or authoring for mainstream publications. and this fits the bill. In addition to driving traffic in this direction, I will be paid by the click for traffic on the PTO site. So in future I will provide links from this blog to that one, and if you click through it helps support the site at no cost.
I am still in the process of setting up the new blog over there, but stay tuned as I hope to have it up there in a few days.
PS: I recommended my friend Dr. Emily Deans of Evolutionary Psychiatry to Ms Perina, and happily Emily has now been invited to post there as well. I think this represents a fine opportunity for Paleo 2.0/ ancestral health to penetrate the mainstream while avoiding some of the more dubious parts of the "movement". I'll certainly try to do my part going forward.
Reader Comments (17)
Both you and Emily Deans reaching a much wider audience--what's not to like about that?
Fantastic news! It's about time that the links between diet and mental health (the REAL links!) got some attention, and who better to do it than Dr. H and Dr. D!
Congratulations! What an amazing opportunity. I will definitely be following those links too.
Congratulations, Kurt! Excellent to know you'll be bringing Paleo to the masses. Good luck with your work over there!
Adam
Congratulations! I'm a big fan of both sites.
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That's awesome. I'm a frequent reader, mostly for psychology but I noticed that they had a few decent health bloggers.
We finally made it, Pa! :)
Congratulations Kurt! Hope it works out well for both sites. Congratulations go out to Dr. Dean also.
Quick question: for those of using RSS, is it better to tune our RSS readers here or to the PT webite. Sounds as if that will the primary site from now on?
Congrats, and I hope you brand of thinking gets the attention it deserves.
KGH: The best thing is to click through and visit each blog - if you read on RSS only the blog stats don't show you, I think.
This is great news! Helps spread the word and hopefully will mean you will be blogging a bit more then usual.
Nice one! congratulations, Doc :)
Great. The larger the audience of your splendid blog, the better.
I'm looking forward to the new psycho venue.It seems appropriate in that you do a good job of weaving multiple disciplines into a take home message of how to live.Maybe someday a panu rock video?Rock on.
Two of the sharpest people out there now reaching a wider audience; a great thing and a large step forward. A hat tip to Kaja Perina.
Congrats!
Dear Dr. Harris,
Congratulations! I'm delighted for you. As I mentioned once, in a comment a long time ago, I think you are a terrific writer.
Thanks to everyone!
I should have a real post up pretty soon here and then one on PT as well.