Over Two-Hundred Education & Science Blogs * † - Department of ...

Petrilli, M.J. 2009. “Linky Love, Snark Attacks, and Fierce Debates about Teacher Quality? "A
peek inside the education blogosphere," Education Next 9(1), Winter; online at
. Petrolli wrote:
Blogs represent the “long end of the tail” of the media; a new form of mass communication this is
not. And at the far end of that long tail sits the education blogosphere, a niche within a niche, with as
many as 30,000 blogs. . . . .[Petrilli does not indicate how he derived his estimate of 30,000 EdBlogs
but it’s possible that he used Technorati’s Advanced Search
to search in all blogs (not posts within blogs) for:
“Education.” As indicated in Appendix C2, that search netted 28,842 hits on 26 February 2009.]. . . .
. . According to the information at : Petrilli oversees the
Hoover foundation's blog The Education Gadfly (see the present blog listing under Amy FAGAN); is
co-author of No Child Left Behind: A Primer
; and was formerly at the U.S. Department
of Education, where he served as associate assistant deputy secretary in the Office of Innovation and
Improvement.
PLoS ONE? 2009. “An interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peerreviewed
scientific and medical research; online at .
Articles in physics are at . For commentary on the debut of PLoS
Biology, see Davis (2007).
Poe, M. 2006. “The Hive: Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an
online encyclopedia touched off history's biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge,”
Atlantic Monthly, September, online at . See
also
Price, R. 2008. “Academia.edu: 'tree' of academics launches,” AERA-K post of 10 Nov 2008
12:08:38-0800; online at . According one of its originators,
philosopher Richard Price (2008), the. . . . [ Academic Tree ]. . .
does two things:
1. shows researchers around the world in a “tree” format, displaying which institution/department
they are affiliated with;
2. enables researchers and academics to keep track of the latest developments in their field – the
latest people, papers, and talks.
Price optimistically adds [my italics]:
We're hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in the world -- Faculty
members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students. People can add their departments, and
themselves, to the tree by clicking on the arrows. The site is getting some traction. Over
14,000 academics have joined Academia.edu in the last two months.
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