Spring Cleaning: My Updated Geoblogosphere Blogroll
posted in Geoblogosphere, Geology, blogging |Some time ago WordPress lost track of the original Geoblogosphere Blogroll I had compiled in the sidebar. It’s probably just as well, because it was getting fairly outdated, given the general churn rate among geoblogs.
Today I got the urge to update my geoblogosphere blogroll – this time as a static page linked from the menu bar just below my header. Its a task that’s eaten much of the day, though I’m glad to have it updated (at least for now). I’ll try to keep it up to date, but will almost certainly fail to do so.
The page is organized in three sections, each ordered alphabetically. I’m pleased to say the largest section is the Active Geoblogs, followed by the Mothballed/Deprecated Geoblogs, and finally those that have passed into the Ether. Why do I maintain a list of mothballed/deprecated blogs? Two reasons: first, some blogs come back to life (I know from personal experience); and second, there’s still good value in all of the archived older material on many of those sites – just because it isn’t new doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting.
Active, I should hasten to add, is a relative term here – I’ve loosely used about a six month cutoff for the most recent (geology related) blog entry. Some folks post on a daily basis and many post much more sporadically. I have made no effort to distinguish these, nor any effort to subcategorize the geoblogs by their area of emphasis. That would probably be a useful next step, but don’t hold your breath waiting for me to do it. I am going to maintain a limited blogroll down on the right sidebar of my blog for the handful of these blogs that I personally consider “Must Reads”. Both geoblog lists are necessarily subjective – I don’t read a lot of paleo blogs because my interest is more in the hard-rock geology fields – please don’t be offended. However, if you think I’ve missed an important blog or you’re just getting started in geoblogging and want me to take a look at your blog feel free to comment on this post and I’ll take your input under advisement.
Geoblogger meetup at the Thirsty Bear – AGU, Dec. 2008
Bonus Points – Can you match the geobloggers with their blogs?
Nice list!
I recommend putting Chuck Bailey in the mothballed section…
C
Oddly it seems I omitted Chuck, despite the fact he’s on my RSS aggregator list. I’ll fix that right away. Thanks for noticing, Callan.
Clearly I’m not posting enough, since mine didn’t make the list. Thanks for compiling this, next time I’m short on things to read I’ll look here first to see if there are any I didn’t know about…
Did you check under “Musings…”? I alphabetized like I learned to decades ago when I worked in a library with a card catalog system. Blogs that begin with “A Geo…” or “The Geo…” are listed as though they were titled “Geo…, A” or “Geo…, The”. Anyhow, your blog is indeed there on the Active list, right where it should be.
Of course, I’d love it if you posted more, so if you were motivated to do that I guess I wouldn’t feel so bad.
My Sb blog should go on the moth-balled/deprecated list – when I come back to being genuinely active, it will be at my old blogspot blog.
Thanks for organizing all of this.
Though you indicated it was going into hiatus, I didn’t know if you’d be returning to the Sb site once the semester had finished. I’ll update it.
Hi!,
Thanks for compiling the list. Can I use it for my own blogroll? I also have a geology blog, but written in Spanish.
Thanks in advance!
Absolutely yes! You’re welcome to use it, just as soon as I add your blog to it. Enjoy!
P.S. Please let me know if I’m missing any other good Spanish language geology bloggers.
Thanks! I’m starting the update of my blogroll!!
I don’t know any other blog in Spanish, but I’ll let you know if I find a new one!
Ron,
This is a great service to or (oblate) geoblogospheroid. If you don’t mind, I’d like to promote myself onto this list as well, my blog can be found here:
http://waternrocks.blogspot.com/
I started in May of last year but had no idea how to get noticed. I took (most of) the winter off and have got back into blogging almost full force.
Thanks,
Roy
Thanks very much for letting me know about your blog. I’ll add it to the list right away. Another suggestion I could offer for building a readership is for you to read and actively comment on other geoblogs. That’s how the community really builds itself.
Happy geoblogging!