Introducing Web 2.0 : Blogs

What is a blog? The word Blog is a contraction of the term web log and is a personal or corporate website in the form of an online journal, with new entries appearing in sequence as they are written. Some blogs such as this library blog are “read only” while others provide an open forum for discussion.

As with Podcasts viewers are often able to sign up for continuous email alerts or for RSS feeds.

It is one of the many ways to keep up to date with developments in your field and to communicate with others.

Here is a selection of environmental Blogs (in alphabetical order):

Climate Debate Daily, named by Times of London as one of the 5 top eco-sites

Climate Ethics Blog is a commentary site on climate change science and policymaking by those working on climate change ethics. The site is intended for policymakers, interested public, and journalists.

ResearchBlogging which accesses blogs maintained by writers producing pee-reviewed material. This is the site to catch up on what is going on in academic research world wide.

Reuters Environment Blog

ScienceBlogs

Short Sharp Science: Environment posts. This blog is maintained by New Scientist.

The Environmental Blog maintained by John Tarantino who founded the non-profit organization to lobby congress to support hybrid vehicles.

The Green Blog with Graham Readfern which is maintained by the Courier Mail.

The Guardian Environmental Blog

While there are indexes to Blogs such as, Technorati,
and Blogcatalog you can also locate Blogs of interest simply by including the word blog in your Google search query.

If you want to set up your own Blog these will help you to start

How to set up a Blog for Beginners

How to set up a science Blog