A few other people got the same email I did, promoting a list of the 50 Best Physics Blogs put together by Accredited Online Colleges Dot Org. It's a fine list, with one glaring problem: They didn't include Matt Springer's Built On Facts. As you can probably tell from its frequent tagging for the daily links dump, I'm a big fan, and think Matt's got one of the best physics blogs going.
I could probably come up with a blog or two that I'd drop off the existing list, but that would be impolitic. So let's just add him as the 51st blog, leaving us one blog shy of a pack of cards. The comments of this post would be an excellent place to suggest who ought to be #52 (or maybe two additional blogs, so we could have a couple of jokers), or attempt to assign suits and values to the various blogs on the existing list.
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Dude, those sites are nothing but link spammers. It's the same for the "Top 50 Women Science Blogs"--which is on some BestPhlebotomyTechnicianSchools cockamamie Web site--and all the other happy horseshit. The only reason they exist is to get credulous bloggers like you to link to them. It's total garbage.
Posted by: Comrade PhysioProf | November 27, 2009 4:37 PM
Thank you sir! From you that's a true honor, since as far as I'm concerned you're the top of the list.
Posted by: Matt Springer | November 27, 2009 6:18 PM
What PhysioProf said. Pure link-spamming. Deleting the link would make the world a very slightly better place.
Posted by: Michael Nielsen | November 27, 2009 7:09 PM
In my reader list I also appreciate:
- Theorema Egregium.
- Andrew's Physics blog at About.com.
- Dmitry's NEQNET: Non-equilibrium Phenomena, although this blog hasn't been updated since June 2009 (does anyone have some news from Dmitry?).
Posted by: Arjen Dijksman | November 28, 2009 3:33 AM
what? no "Starts with a Bang?" what kind of list *is* this? I second PhysioProf.
Posted by: Sam K. | November 28, 2009 10:52 AM
Personally, I like Behind the Guesses (although he hasn't posted recently...)
Posted by: James | November 30, 2009 10:33 AM