Summer of geoblogs

During the summer the geoblogosphere has significantly grown. Geobologosphere News has added 44(!) new geoblogs to it's list since June 2009, here is the list:

Louisville Area Fossils
Daily Fossil
El pantano del Purussaurus (The Purussaurus Swamp)
Malaysian Triassic Blog
Charonosaurus's Diary
Associazione Paleontologica Parmense Italiana
Carnosauria
Jurassic Italia Blog
Chuck Bailey's Blog
Oblate Spheroid
Eat. Sleep. Geology.
PETROLEUM GEOLOGY زمین شناسی نفت
Sedimentary Soliloquy
Teaching the Earth Sciences
Wooster Geologists
Wry Heat
SuperRaptor's Paleo Blog
Paleotrails Project
RMDRC paleo lab
Thom Holmes Prehistoria - more than dinosaurs
Central Arizona Geology Club
Environment and Geology
JOIDES Resolution blogs
Geology in the West Country
Utah Geological Survey - blog
UnEarthedTees' Geology News
SDSU Geological Sciences - Department Blog
Honduras Geology
Blog Geologia UFC
Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal
Geopedrados
Dinosaurios (el cuaderno de Godzillin)
ALT-SOCIEDADE DE HISTORIA NATURAL
Geopark Araripe
PALEONTOGRAFIA: Paleontologia em evidencia
Grupo Paleo. Blog de Paleontologia.
Las cronicas de Pabluratops
Riparian Rap
Ammonoidea
Geosfera
La Taberna del Drunkerosteus
Mundo Neandertal
Mesozoico
Jovenes Paleoilustradores

Science 2.0 - If research papers hat a comment section - Update

A while ago Jorge Cham had this wonderful cartoon on PhD Comic what it would be like if research papers had a comment section.

Today I found a real world example on the GEON web pages. http://www.geongrid.org/index.php/news/comments/interop_gin_the_geosciences_information_network/P2750/

ROFL!

Meanwhile, I found another example in the comments section at the Digital Curation Centre.

Book recommendation: Willem Frederik Hermans - Beyond Sleep

Alfred Issendorf, a young dutch geology student is sent by his professor to the wilderness of Finnmark (Norway) to find proof of his advisor's hypothesis that certain lakes are meteorite craters. He has ambition but little talent and his quest soon turns into a real catastrophy.

I strongly hope there is no real analogue for Issendorf now stumbling around in the bavarian Chiemgau. The story strongly reminds me on what currently happens in Bavaria where the glacial Lake Tüttensee and some other depressions have been declared to represent remains of a postulated 'chiemgau impact'.

But wait.. you have to read the whole book first;)