Nature on science blogs

Top five science blogs

Weblogs written by scientists are relatively rare, but some of them are proving popular. Out of 46.7 million blogs indexed by the Technorati blog search engine, five scientists' sites make it into the top 3,500. Declan Butler asks the winners about the reasons for their success. ...

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We [Nature] also have a list of science blogs by writers, rather than scientists, and an extended list of 50 popular science blogs. Click here for a more extensive note on how our lists were made, and a box of blogshots.

They also talk about top science blogs in this week's podcast.

06 July 2006: Audio (mp3 file)

Face recognition, koala retroviruses, a sneaky sociologist, top science blogs, big cat business, new nukes, the search for Earth-like planets, and silent earthquakes.

The full podcast feed is http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/rss/nature.xml

UPDATE 2006-07-07: Tailrank, which clusters related blog postings together, has two threads (with a lot of overlap) on the science blogs article. ENDUPDATE

Previously:
April 24, 2006  types of science blogs, and a challenge about doing real science through blogs
April 14, 2006  Science magazine on environmental science blogs
February 26, 2006  Physics World on Physics bloggers
January 16, 2006  Seed Magazine and science blogs
December 20, 2005  science blogging, with extra physics flavour
August 27, 2005  more about science blogs