Today I happened to check my visitor stats and noticed a whole bunch of visitors from The Intersection. I stepped on over there and found out that it is a blog written by Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science. He’d happened to link to my reviews on Bethell’s tripe. I dug a little further into ScienceBlogs.com and found a whole bunch of really fantastic science blogs there. And, even more to my surprise, it is run by my new favorite media company, Seed Media Group!
The bloggers gathered together at ScienceBlogs are some of the brighter lights in the science blogging community, so it’s kind of a one-stop-shop for the latest discussion. It is, however, lacking in coverage of Astronomy, Space Sciences, and the Geosciences. I hope that particular vacancy(ies) will be filled soon.
By the way, my current favorite science blogs are Real Climate and Bad Astronomy Blog. They are both consistently excellent.
ScienceBlogs is a very loosely-structured blog community, so it serves more to aggregate visitors than to propagate ideas as I suggested in this entry. A reader (PhysBrain) suggested that the site Frontier Files Online might serve to be that space-advocacy blog community I mentioned. The skeleton is there, but the site is just not actively updated enough for it to become a vibrant center of space community thought. That kind of community needs an organizer, at least in the beginning.
Another great tip. I checked out several of the listed bloggers, and read the very informative “I’m moving” post of “GrrlScientist” on her prior blog: http://girlscientist.blogspot.com/2006/01/rumors-are-true.html
I still haven’t found a copy of Seed but I signed up for a free issue. It seems to me that these bloggers are rather focused and dedicated to their chosen domains, and I honestly think you should look into signing on with them! I’m trying to think of which if any of the “space bloggers” would fit in with their M.O. - focused on science, policy, and interpretation.
-Bruce
Bruce,
Thanks for the suggestion about signing in with them, I’ll definitely consider it! They receive so much more traffic than I do at this point that it would certainly be a step up in the blogosphere. I’ve thought about the space blogger thing too, and I’m not sure who would fit into that particular category either. There just is not a superstar in our growing little community that seems to stand out, at least not at first. The bigger-name space bloggers are mostly focused on the policy side of things, such as Rand Simberg or Jeff Foust.