It can be difficult to locate authoritative blogs. Here are some starting points:
This blog aggregator has recently narrowed its service to a few science-only blogs.
Blog aggregator: recent blog articles in many science, technology & medical fields.
An aggregated blog of a few dozen science bloggers trying to help people understand science.
A blog is an informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). The term \"blog\" was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997 and popularized by Evan Williams in 1999. Learn about the history, evolution, and features of blogs, as well as the different types and examples of blogs in various fields and formats.
Until scholars started blogging, the general reading public had very little access to the conversations of scholars, which are breeding grounds for many of the major ideas that eventually become groundbreaking research studies, articles, and books. These conversations happen at conferences during presentations, but also over coffee or beer near the conference sites, or in department offices, labs, and local hangouts. With blogs, scholars get a chance to let a broader public get a glimpse of ideas as they form, and see how scholars test things out in an environment more open and forgiving (sometimes) than a professional presentation or publication. Blogs also allow scholars a venue for educating a broader public, especially on topics that are misunderstood or misrepresented in the popular press.
Compared to traditional academic journals, which have existed for over 200 years, blogs are still relatively new, which means that only a few blogs are beginning to be included in article databases.
Questions to consider when seeking information in a blog:
Please check with your professor on what is appropriate material to use when doing research for a specific class, you may be prohibited from using Blogs for your academic research.