There's the analyzer, the explainer, the linker, the reviewer, the short blurber, and other, Rhett Allain writes on Wired.com's Dot Physics blog. He classifies recent posts from eight science blogs. (But how did he overlook On science blogs this week?) "I guess the next step would be to create some keyword-based algorithm that could automagically classify each blogger’s posts," Allain concludes. "Then you could generate some blog-scale score."
May 24, 2011