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Scienceblogging is intended to grow, but it can only do so with the help of the community. The first step is to get suggestions (and actually, our first suggestion was to put up a suggestions page), so feel free to use the comment thread of this post to make them. Or email us at contact@scienceblogging.org. While we can’t promise to implement all the suggestions right away, we’ll do our best to make this site the best it can be.
Next to or in addition to the links to the posts, there should be a link to the feed. What would be really cool is a way to check off a bunch of things and then export an OPML file (people still use OPML files, don’t they?).
I definitely think you need to have a directory of indie blogs. You’d have to come up with some decent categorization scheme so people could find the ones they want.
You should also list some other science blog aggregators like chemical blogspace and the Nature one.
It would also be cool if there was a way to search these – both the site here and search the actual blogs covered. That would probably be harder.
Good job so far!
Congratulations on a fabulous initiative folks. Very impressed.
In terms of making it better, I would recommend making a distinction between blogs and aggregators. I do think there is a fundamental difference between original content in places like Discover, Scienceblogs, Wired, Scientopia etc. etc. and press release aggregators like Futurity.
Thanks, Ed and Christina. Keep the ideas coming, and we’ll make changes and improvements as soon as we can.
One thing I’d like to see is some sort of shuffling of the placement of feeds. The page has an easy, simple layout – but because of the number of feeds, it can be a bit overwhelming.
I’m trying to imagine someone coming to the page for the first time, looking for an introduction to science blogs. Probably the networks in the first scroll-page will get a lot of hits, while other feeds and networks will get lost as you scroll down.
I understand that there are more prominent or dominant networks, the ones that are more well-known or are associated with a strong brand, lending them legitimacy. But by always highlighting those same networks, it leaves a lot of other sites unnoticed.
HOWEVER – if the feed page is intended for the bloggers ourselves as a way to navigate our world, we probably have enough interest to look through all the feeds.
I don’t know much about programming – whether there would be an easy way to display feeds at random, or setting up some sort of daily rotation of placement. But it’s something worth looking into.
What a super idea! Found out about it too late for the Aug 20 NASW On Science Blogs This Week (http://bit.ly/aLZ7Hu). Alas, but you may be sure it will be prominently featured next time. Meanwhile, let me second Ed Yong’s urgings that you find some way of distinguishing between original content and press releases. There are important differences in purposes between the two. But audiences don’t always understand those differences, and it would be useful to help them out.
What a brilliant idea! A guide to the science-blogging-galaxy! No panic. Thanks!
As for suggestions: as Christina said, it would be great if you could include the independent blogs as well. They are even harder to navigate than the groups and networks and they might be the ones to gain the most from aggregation.
Also: for people new to the science-blogosphere, it might be helpful to have a very brief description of the network/aggregator (subject, field, corporate, cooperative etc.), maybe as a pop-up window when you roll over them as you do it for the posts.
But these are small things. The whole thing already makes a lot of sense!
Great stuff…hope there is more in the pipelines:-)
My suggestions/wishlist were too big to fit the comments, so wrote a blog post here- http://www.science3point0.com/freescience/2010/08/20/wishlist-for-a-scienceblogging-aggregator/
What a great idea!
But how about history and philosophy of science & medicine blogs? A great (updated) list is available here: http://bit.ly/9lLNLe
Oops. I put the wrong link! I meant this one–http://bit.ly/c3g1pm
It seems like you’re anointing one aggregator per discipline and your guidelines preclude other, possibly overlapping aggregators. That’s fine – you can’t show everything on the front page – but it would be nice if somewhere you’d also list alternate aggregators that may overlap with the ones you’ve anointed.
Personally I’d like to see some additional AJAX features: real-time scrolling stories as they’re posted (so it’s not necessary to reload the front page to see updates) and a way to scroll back through earlier entries built into this site.
I’d also echo the suggestions above for OPML support, direct links to the feeds, and rotating placement of the aggregators.
We are interested in all the alternative aggregators – we are not anointing anything, or picking one per discipline. We put up those networks, groups, and services that we know of and that have a unified feed we could use. Let us know about the others and we will take a look.
I think use of tags is going to be really important. For example, right now I would love to be able to subscribe to an RSS feed of all posts with the tags “hauser”, “marc hauser,” or “hausergate,” to follow that story across multiple blogs without having to hunt around for who has the latest interesting post.
Ideally, this would be mostly automated — your site would provide lists of commonly used tags from the blogs that it aggregates, and people would be able to use that list to tell what the useful tags are. If I posted something tagged “marc hauser,” I might go notice on scienceblogging.org that “hauser” was a more commonly used tag, and either I would change it, or I wouldn’t (with resulting loss of eyeballs to my post). I think you will start seeing people coming to consensus on particular tags (though maybe it would be worth setting up some sort of forum for people to discuss individual tags that there is no agreement on).
I think this should be no work once it is set up, but you might have a bit of a tech hurdle to actually set it up. I really do think this would be an extremely useful way of letting people browse blogs, though. I personally would love to subscribe to any number of tag feeds permanently (like “brain” and “behavior” tags) and others transiently (“hauser,” “heffernan”!). That’s really the way I’d rather read science blogs, rather than by individual blogger!
It occurs to me that http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/ is a science blog network of sorts(?)
I’ve created a feed of indie neuroblogs: http://friendfeed.com/neuroghetto – if you find the actual title offensive, I can change it…
Thanks.
Another multi-author blog – Chemistry Blog
A new math-centric community that’s getting traction and has a multi-author blog series: http://www.equalis.com/members/blog_view.asp?id=565749
One source of technology news where I often spot interesting research results is the ACM Tech News. They send me an email every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The web site is http://technews.acm.org/, but I don’t know if they have an RSS feed. In any case, I regularly see links there before they show up on Twitter.
Hi,
Another source of science blogs is http://www.thetwentyfirstfloor.com/ from Scotland.
They have an RSS feed.
Cheers,
Dave
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