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4. ScienceBlogs
At it is stated:
Launched in January 2006, ScienceBlogs is a portal to this global dialogue, a digital science
salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Today,
ScienceBlogs is the largest online community dedicated to science. . . . . . We have selected our
60+ bloggers based on their originality, insight, talent, and dedication and how we think they
would contribute to the discussion at ScienceBlogs. Our role, as we see it, is to create and
continue to improve this forum for discussion, and to ensure that the rich dialogue that takes
place at ScienceBlogs resonates outside the blogosphere.. . . . ScienceBlogs was created by Seed
Media Group . . . .[founded by Adam Bly
in 2005]. . .
A “Blog Index” in the left column at At lists
77 ScienceBlogs (as if 15 March 2009), evidently selected by the Seed Media Group. Only
these eleven are among the approximately 220 blogs listed in the present compilation
(indicating that excellent science blogs have been omitted from both lists):
1. Dave Bacon’s The Quantum Pontiff ,
2. Mark Chu-Carroll’s Good Math, Bad Math ,
3. James Hrynyshyn’s Island of Doubt ,
4. P.Z. Myers’s Pharyngula ,
5. Matthew Nesbit’s Framing Science ,
6. Chad Orzel’s Uncertain Principles ,
7. Alice Pawley & ScienceWoman’s” Sciencewomen
,
8. Jason Rosenhouse’s Evolutionblog ,
9. Matt Springer’s Built on Facts: ,
10. John Whitfield’s Blogging the Origin , and
11. Bora Zivkovic’s Blog Around the Clock .
5. Other Blog Lists
In addition to the above four directories [IDE (Donaghy, 2009), Technorati (2009), Blogged
(2009), and ScienceBlogs (2009)], among other blog lists are:
1. the present list of over 200 Education and Science Blogs;
2. those in AEA (2009), BlogFlux (2009), Brittanica Blogs (2009), Chasteen (2008),
Discover Magazine (2009), Downes (2008a), Education Week Blogs (2009), Glenn (2003),
Mathews (2008), OEDB (2006), Pawley & “ScienceWoman” (2009), Petrilli (2009), Rice
(2006), & Yahoo (2009b,c);
3. the “Blog Rolls” in many of the blogs presently listed, provided by bloggers to indicate
their favorite blogs.
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