In the weeks following .Astronomy my brain has been thinking over weird and wonderful ideas about using content on the web. Last weekend I was reminded about how Technorati used to list trending topics and I thought I would have a play about to build my own list tailored to the astronomy blogosphere. So, I present the work-in-progress that is spacebuzz.
Spacebuzz trawls through (currently) 59 astronomy and space related blogs looking for
tags. It then ranks the tags based on the number of occurances and how recently they were posted. If you click on one of the tags on the spacebuzz page, you should get a list of relevant blog posts within the past 30 days with the most recent first. If your blog doesn't appear in the listings it is either because I don't know about it or you don't tag your blog posts. At some point I'll build a page that lists all the blogs it uses so people can check if their own is included.
Even if nobody else finds it useful, this morning it helped me spot that the Cassini team were releasing images of Saturn's polar hexagon.
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Posted by Stuart on Thursday 23rd Oct 2008 (16:10 UTC)
That looks an amazing widget, Stuart. Interesting to see how it develops.
Posted by Paul on Tuesday 28th Oct 2008 (21:40 UTC)
Here is a relatively new astronomy blog, courtesy of the Birmingham (Alabama) Astronomical Society: http://www.bas-astro.com/blog/
Clear skies! - James
Posted by James Moore on Wednesday 14th Jan 2009 (21:30 UTC)
Posted by Stuart on Thursday 22nd Jan 2009 (19:14 UTC)
Stuart, do you think spacebuzz could be implemented for all scienceblog-networks? (see scienceblogging.org)and here:
http://www.science3point0.com/weitergen/2010/08/23/trending-topics-are-so-science-3-0
Posted by Tobias on Tuesday 24th Aug 2010 (16:35 UTC)
Greetings!
I am the manager of the Southworth Planetarium at the University of Southern Maine. I write a blog
entitled "The Daily Astronomer,"
and wanted to know if it could be included in your astronomy blog listing.
Thank you for your time.
Edward Gleason
Astronomer/Manager
Southworth Planetarium
Posted by Edward Gleason on Saturday 02nd Oct 2010 (20:40 UTC)
Nice article, thanks for the information.
Posted by sewa mobil on Thursday 02nd Jun 2011 (04:07 UTC)
Hello,
I am emailing you from NOVA WGBH. We are currently launching a new 3-part guest blog series on Inside NOVA. The first post, by John Logsdon, is live and can be seen at www.pbs.org/nova/insidenova.
John Logsdon is a professor emeritus at the Space Policy Institute, George Washington University, and author of "John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon." In 2003, he was a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.
Later today: Rush DeNooyer, producer of NOVAâ™s âœHubbleâ™s Amazing Rescueâ
July 8: Bill Adkins, former staff director of the House Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is president of Adkins Strategies LLC, a DC-based consulting firm, and is a principal at the Center for Strategic Space Studies.
We hope that you will log on.
Thank you.
Posted by Alysha Malik on Thursday 07th Jul 2011 (16:17 UTC)
I was wondering if you could mention it in your posts.
Thanks
Posted by Alysha Malik on Thursday 07th Jul 2011 (16:18 UTC)
Newly published scientific paper on Gliese-581d may be viewed/accessed at:
http://www.journals-of-science.com/gl-581-pr.html
Posted by Walter Trentadue on Wednesday 05th Sep 2012 (15:41 UTC)
Posted by Stuart on Sunday 09th Sep 2012 (14:58 UTC)