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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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Sunday, February 01, 2009

NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED BLAH BLAH BLAH

Today has not gone according to plan. We have had a string of technical problems including a laptop that has died, a flat tyre on the daihatsu, and the total failure of the Bravenet web statistics aggregator. That means that although the web counter is working, the stats analyser isn't and it appears that we have had no visitors at all for the last few days. I know full well that isn't trye, but it doesn't help us in our analysis programme.

Last week, by the way, the best number of hits on the bloggo was just over 1,600 on monday, and we averaged over 800 for the rest of the week. Not bad when we have only been in operation for a few weeks. It is, however, frustrating to be continuing to post new material without being able to tell how many people are reading it.

The new episode of `On the Track` is also taking a little more time than I had hoped, but will be finished within the next hour or so. How long it takes to embed, compress and upload before you can see it is anyone's guess, but I can confidently predict that you will have it by tomorrow lunchtime.

It is, I think, the best episode yet, and I very much hope that you will all enjoy it.

Expect a few more new features both on the website and on the bloggo within the next few days. 2009 is shaping up to be a lot of fun...
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