types of science blogs, and a challenge about doing real science through blogs

In a recent posting, Science and Politics lists many different types of science blogs, including everything from Universal Fun Bloginess to Nature Writing to Life in Lab and Field.

Bora Zivkovic then raises these questions:

I have not really seen a science blogger post an original hypothesis. Social scientists constantly post drafts of their papers, sometimes just sketches of idea, on their blogs, encourage commetning and discussion, and end up publishing the final refined version in journals. I do nto see natural scientists do the same. Why?

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I have not seen anyone post unpublished data on a blog.  That is, except me, (see this and this).  Why is it so?  Fear of being scooped?

But, putting data on a blog is a fast way of getting the data out with a date/time stamp on it. It is a way to scoop the competition. Once the data are published in a real Journal, you can refer back to your blog post and, by doing that, establish your primacy.

via Postgenomic

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to link to particular blog "stories" in Postgenomic, so I hope they will forgive me for scooping up their links:

Even more on science online publishing in science and politics

unknown in public rambling

Science blogging and publishing: the medical wikipedia concept of Peter Frishauf in terra sigillata

The blogularity in neurofuture

Blogs as cited references in scientific papers in science and politics

More on publishing data on blogs in science and politics

Cataloguing the Science Blogosphere in the scientific activist:  reporting from the crossroads of science and politics

Bora explains it all in pharyngula

Science blogs 101 in aetiology

Could science blogs become part of scientific publishing? in terra sigillata