The ScienceBlogs exodus and the holy land for geoblogs

Since ScienceBlogs have announced to host a Pepsi blog, Eruptions, Laelaps and Highly Allochthonous thought about leaving ScienceBlogs and are now looking for an alternative host for their blogs.

Of course there are a variety of possible hosts and many of us geobloggers use for example standard wordpress or blogger services. But in comparison with ScienceBlogs these are evil and infected with all kind of perverted blogs. I personally feel good here at blogger, however since my last Turkey visit I realised that this platform is blocked in some countries because of the many pornographic blogs there. And this stinks of course..

So where should a good geoblog go? I have also been asked if stratigraphy.net or Geoblogosphere News could offer a blogging platform. The answer is no, but maybe another purely scientific host like Nature Network would be the holy land for geoblogs?

Should I stay or should I go now..?

iGeoinfo is back

Last year we had to report on the demise of iGeoinfo, the International Coalition for Geoinformatics. At this time, the domain igeoinfo.org was taken over by domain grabbers and just too expensive to buy it back. A pitty, as iGeoinfo indeed stood for good transantlantic geoinformatics cooperation. But..there's life in the old dog yet: I recently noticed that the domain was on the market again and offered for free! I bought it, recovered some of the old contents and here it is again: http://www.igeoinfo.org.

The Geoblogosphere – A Bibliography

Lutz has collected an interesting blogospheric bibliography at geoberg.de covering 'scientific papers and important articles and projects dealing with the geoblogosphere in a more universal sense.'