Science has published an article urging more environmental scientists to take up blogging. Nick Anthis has a summary.
The article gives examples of "excellent, informative sites":
Mark Lynas,
RealClimate,
Climate Science,
James' Empty Blog,
DeSmogBlog,
Prometheus,
Science At Stake,
ScienceBlogs,
Scientist on ice, and
Climate change conference weblog.
A pretty good list, even if I do so say so myself.
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Journal Nature has published a short article about science blogging. You do not need a subscription to read it - you can find it here.
In it, they highlight Top 5 science blogs according to Technorati rankings. Those five are, quite deservingly, Pharyngula, Panda's Thumb, Real Climate, Cosmic…
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Pharyngula (179)
The Panda's Thumb (1,647)
RealClimate (1,884)
Cosmic…
From quite early on in my blogging endeavor, I was interested in exploring science blogging, what it is, what it can do, and what it can become. So, check out some of my earliest thoughts on this here and here.
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