# Oddest scam ever or what? Smithsonian blog deal **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543 "2011-05-20T05:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/21 "2011-05-20T22:58:29Z")
How exciting! I don’t suppose you want to plug your blog here, so we can say we all read it before you became rich and famous? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/22 "2011-05-20T23:02:14Z")
That is very exciting! I’m so glad it turned out to be legit. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/23 "2011-05-20T23:38:22Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > How exciting! > > I don’t suppose you want to plug your blog here, so we can say we all read it before you became rich and famous? Let me get a new post up first, so it has some current content–in the end-of-school chaos I have neglected it a bit. Then I will–after all, I should get a test audience or something! 😃 I just talked with a good friend who seems to have a much better handle on what all this means than I do. We’re going to get together and come up with a list of the right questions to ask–copyright and so on. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/24 "2011-05-23T14:25:11Z")
OK, [here it is](http://americanprimarysource.blogspot.com/). The idea for this blog was that American history is my worst subject, so I need to learn about it, and I started a project where I would read some sort of primary source material and then write it up a little. So it’s not like I’m an expert–it’s a learning project. Please be nice! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/25 "2011-05-23T15:38:28Z")
This is pretty awesome, and what a ‘meet cute’ story you have now! 😃 Congratulations 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/26 "2011-05-23T18:26:39Z")
This is one of the coolest things I have heard of in a long time! Congratulations Dangermom, and may I add that I am jealous as hell? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/27 "2011-05-23T18:29:51Z")
Hey, congrats! Glad to see the Lucy Stone essay on your blog - I’m an Oberlin College grad myself. Let me know if you need more suggested Civil War reading; I’ve long been interested in that era. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543/28 "2011-05-24T00:23:45Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > Let me get a new post up first, so it has some current content–in the end-of-school chaos I have neglected it a bit. Then I will–after all, I should get a test audience or something! Just make sure your servers are in order to prepare for the onslaught of traffic you’re likely to see! Huge congrats are in order:D [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oddest-scam-ever-or-what-smithsonian-blog-deal/582543.md?page=1)