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On blogs and wikis in science

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This Nature article explores some of the blogging and wiki efforts in
science and asks why more scientists haven’t adopted these new vehicles
of communication.  (Source: the Sci-tech Library Question)

LANL Library news blog

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The Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library has a blog, Research Library News. 

Article on Google library project at Harvard

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A profile of Harvard University Librarian Sidney Verba discusses the
scope of the university’s collaboration with Google, and also some gray
areas around copyright. 

Seed magazine on physics blogs

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A short piece on how discussions of experiments spread through the net.  (Source: Not
Even Wrong)

Harvard’s Ernst Mayr Library has an XML feed for its New Books list

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Blog software reviewed

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This article considers Movable Type, WordPress, and Text Pattern.  (source: beSpacific)

Update on Zvonimir Dogic’s lab

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The PhysicsWeb article “Doing Physics with Bacteria” highlights the
work of Rowland’s Zvonimir Dogic, who studies phase transitions of
bacterial flagellar filaments in their latest paper.

RSS feeds for (some) ACS journals

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The American Chemical Society has RSS feeds for the A-pages of
Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of
Proteome Research and Chemical & Engineering News. (Source; ACS
Livewire)

the “Google news” of the blog world

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Memeorandum includes both blog posts and news stories in its ongoing digest.  (Source: Scripting News; Wired News)

Nature magazine has a podcast

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Nature now features a weekly podcast that includes highlights from the magazine.  It also has an RSS feed. 

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