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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Aggregating science blogs

If you liked Scott McLemee's idea for an Aggregator Academica, then you'll like Alf Eaton's partial prototype, aggademia. As Alf describes it on Nature's blog, Nascent,

Using Aggademia, you can [1] browse through blog posts (aggregated from most of the top 50 popular science blogs, as published in Nature last week) and vote on items (up/down or 1-5: either works, but only the up/down votes are counted in the 'popular' list at the moment) and [2] create or join existing groups on particular topics. The owner of a group can edit the official list of links for that topic (using the 'Related Links' box in the 'edit' tab for the group), while other members of the group can make suggestions for useful topic-related links (using 'create weblink' in the group sidebar). To join a group, click 'subscribe' in the group sidebar on the right-hand side.