Maybe a compromise is the best way. Let's differentiate between "News" and "Discussion".
How about a post in Technical for milestones like the 1000 mark was, and a post in Bloggers for the other milemarkers like 850? (We'll encounter more resistance as we go up the ladder, naturally... and the Bloggers forum is possibly the 2nd best forum for visibility.)
I'm not suggesting that FR's folding effort is news. It however doesn't deserve to be spiked from technical. That's a specific group that folks can ignore at their leisure.
Jim Robinson needs to comment on our effort. We will take folding to the top 100. If he doesn't want that to be a part of FreeRepublic, just say so and we'll all drop out of it. End of story.
How 'bout a weekly update, say a Saturday morning recap of the F@H project in the technical, that just references whatever current thread happens to be current in the bloggers. That way, there is still exposure, but not undue stepping-on-footage, as there appeared to be recently.