swans on tea

Greatest posts/year-in-review lists seem to be all the rage, so why not?

The top traffic posts that are not simply one of my many links, i.e. there is significant commentary or it’s an original piece. Not always about physics or technology.

MiniMe, You Retweet Me

Blogging: You’re Doing it Wrong! (Part 1) (and others in the series)

Here Be Dragons

Time for a New Article on Time

Have You Checked the Woodworking Lately?

Thou Shalt Not Dilate Thy Time

Other physicis-y post highlights for the year

There Must Be Room for Debate

Poolside Optics

The Butler’s Name is Emissivity

Today is Fara Day

Photography and Physics Tutorial: Filtering and Polarized Light

You Can’t Even Hope to Contain Him

The Nose Knows Physics

And one non-physics highlight:

If I Did It

Physics World Web Life: Swans on Tea

Swans on Tea is a blog written Tom Swanson, an atomic physicist at the US Naval Observatory who posts under the nickname swansont – hence the name of his blog.
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Three posts a day is not uncommon, although many of these entries are quite short, consisting only of links to news stories, online videos, or photos, plus some brief comments from Swanson. Longer posts involving the author’s own work or non-work activities are much rarer, dwarfed by the sheer quantity of interesting stuff he manages to find elsewhere on the Internet.

Nothing you didn’t already know. Just in case you were wondering, though, I was not interviewed (meaning they actually read the blog). I heard about it when someone gave me an attaboy, and have been waiting for the online version to appear.

Awesome new physics blogs

Which reminds me that my blogroll disappeared at some point in my layout reshuffling, and I should do something about that someday…

Eureka’s Top 30 Science Blogs

It’s not April 1 or anything, but somehow a climate denial site is listed at #30 (the list is alphabetical — can you guess watt it is?). And there’s an aggregator site listed as well, so it’s really the top 28.

Giant’s Shoulders #12 is up at thoughts from gut bacteria.

The next Giant’s Shoulders is being hosted by fellow-SFN-blogger ecoli at Thoughts From Gut Bacteria

I meant to link to this before, but forgot until I ran across it again — 3 Quarks Daily is going to award prizes for good posts in the blogohedron

[I]n the interest of encouraging and rewarding good writing in the blogosphere, we have decided to start awarding four prizes every year in the respective areas of Science, Arts & Literature, Politics, and Philosophy for the best blog post in those fields. Here’s how it’s going to work:

Starting next month, the prizes will be awarded every year on the two solstices and the two equinoxes. So, we will announce the winner of the science prize on June 21, the arts and literature prize on September 22, the politics prize on December 21, and the philosophy prize on March 20, 2010.

You can read the announcement and rules here

Feel free to nominate any post you like — mine or anybody else’s.

Voting is now open. Here’s the list of nominees.

Women in Science: 50 Must Read Bloggers

Women have long played an important role in scientific developments and discourse, however, this role has historically received relatively less recognition and coverage as compared to their male counterparts. Over the last few years, however, blogging has opened up a way for leading women in science to bring to light the important improvements women have made, the struggles they still encounter, and the strategies they set up for their work to be recognized.

In this article, we highlight and recognize what we consider to be the 50 best blogs covering the vital roles played by women in science

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The Giants’ Shoulders # 8 is up at Greg Laden’s Blog

Stephanie did the research, and now has written an article about Why physics teachers should read blogs for The Physics Teacher, and here’s a link to the director’s cut in which she says a few nice things about me, and has several links, and links to links (but AFAICT no links to links about links, or links to links about lynx)