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Scientific American July Issue.

In other news, Nature has started Scintilla, a service that keeps you up to date on papers, news and science weblogs. You can also rate and recommend things. You'll have to register to do anything and you can't have a RSS feed (What!! My browser doesn't run on free fuel, you know; I can't take it everywhere. Give me RSS feeds or lose me).

Seed did a great job in spotting the trend early.

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I signed up for a Scintilla account to check it out, but I doubt I'll be visiting very often. My first impression is that the interface is clunky and I don't really see the advantage to reading blogs there when I've already subscribed to the RSS feeds. I suppose once more people sign up there is the potential for social networking, but I don't think it's reached critical mass yet.