The Public Library of Science, which as I noted recently has started a project of Open Access review of articles with its PLOSOne, has also begun a blog on it, divided into technical and publishing streams. There's not much there yet, and the technical will probably be more useful than the other stream, for those wo wish to set up their own Open Access Review system.
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