research blogs

This is an annotated list of weblogs I have found that are used by researchers and academics as a part of their research practice. I'm gathering these links to find out more about how blogs are used in academia and research. If you know of any research blogs I haven't listed please let me know about them. If you're in the list and disagree with the way I've described you write and tell me why, and I'll probably change it. I would like the annotations to explain what kind of research each blogger does and how the weblog is used in that research.

Torill Mortensen and I have written a paper on blogs in research together, Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool (February 2002, PDF).

These kinds of weblogs are also called knowlegde logs, or k-logs or klogs. There's a mailing list about this called k-logs.