After posting the geoblogosphere bibliography few days ago I got an e-mail from the Public Information Coordinator of the AGU, Maria-José Viñas, with two suggestions for geoblogosphere-related online articles I added to the list meanwhile. She informed me that the AGU started a new blog about science communication in March named “The Plainspoken Scientist“. They created a category named “Why I blog”, where geobloggers like Callan or Jessica are invited to publish the way they became a geoblogger. Maria-José Viñas wrote:
[...] we’ll be exploring why Earth and space scientists blog, what they get from blogging, and how their outreach efforts are perceived by their peers, among other questions.
There will be at least three posts more in this series. So, subscribe to the feed and stay tuned
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