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Half a century ago, Belgian Zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans first codified cryptozoology in his book On the Track of Unknown Animals.

The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) are still on the track, and have been since 1992. But as if chasing unknown animals wasn't enough, we are involved in education, conservation, and good old-fashioned natural history! We already have three journals, the largest cryptozoological publishing house in the world, CFZtv, and the largest cryptozoological conference in the English-speaking world, but in January 2009 someone suggested that we started a daily online magazine! The CFZ bloggo is a collaborative effort by a coalition of members, friends, and supporters of the CFZ, and covers all the subjects with which we deal, with a smattering of music, high strangeness and surreal humour to make up the mix.

It is edited by CFZ Director Jon Downes, and subbed by the lovely Lizzy Bitakara'mire (formerly Clancy), scourge of improper syntax. The daily newsblog is edited by Corinna Downes, head administratrix of the CFZ, and the indexing is done by Lee Canty and Kathy Imbriani. There is regular news from the CFZ Mystery Cat study group, and regular fortean bird news from 'The Watcher of the Skies'. Regular bloggers include Dr Karl Shuker, Dale Drinnon, Richard Muirhead and Richard Freeman.The CFZ bloggo is updated daily, and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else. Come and join us...

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Friday, January 23, 2009

IT'S ALL CHANGE HERE AT THE CFZ BLOGGYTHINGS

Last night I made a decision that got me slightly - surprisingly (and slightly embarrasingly) - upset: I changed the name of this blog. Since I started the blog in 2005 it has been mine, and mine only. It was where I chronicled my father's final illness and death, my marriage to Corinna, and my hopesd and fears, triumphs and tragedies over the years. No more than about 50 people a day would read it, but it was quite important to me.

Now, by a happy accident, the CFZ Blogosphere has blossomed beyond recognition (we had over a thousand hits yesterday) and it seems more appropriate that this is renamed the CFZ blog. I am not going to start another personal one, and as editor of the CFZ family of blogs, and ringmaster of this veritable circus, I completely intend to carry on writing my own bits and bobs on this blog, and you will - of course - get the occasional rant from me on the subject of music, politics or whatever has caught my eye that morning.....

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