It’s about time

Why did this take so long anyway?

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Competition in the Science Blogosphere

As science blogging is becoming an ever more popular way for scientists to communicate and express themselves, the pressure is mounting to bring the best bloggers to a particular site, as Coturnix has noticed.

I’m glad ScienceForums.net has a slice of science blog pie, and have watched with pleasure as Swans on Tea, and even my own little blog, have begun to grow some popularity.

I think the market is quickly becoming saturated with new bloggers, however, fairly soon only people who already have ‘celebrity’ status, and bloggers with original ideas will be able to capture the share of readership.

Currently, sources like Discover magasine are trying to capture on the success of Scienceblogs.com, and even recruiting their writers.  Blog hosting sites may have start offering greater incentive for bloggers to stay (*cough*).

Judging from the success of Scienceblogs.com, it appears that having a collaborative source for blogs seems like the way to go, especially for start-up bloggers.  There seems to be little point in investing in a domain name if nobody reads the blog.

This also brings up the interesting thought, that I expect we will have to deal with soon, of who owns the content posted in a blog, if the blog’s hoster isn’t the writer of the blog.

These types of issues and competition between blogging sites seems to be another thing that limits what blogs can do.

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