To search for information in blogs the best search enigines are currently Technorati, Ask and Google Blogsearch.

To read new entries from blogs at regular interval you can subscribe to most blogs using their rss feed. Among students at Wageningen UR blogging is not very popular, so it seems.

The Academic blog portal http://www.academicblogs.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

A wiki that lists various academic blogs.

Discover Blogs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/

Freshly starting collection of science blogs at Discover Magazine.  It hosts one of the most popular science blogs Bad astronomy.  

Nature Blogs http://blogs.nature.com/

A collection of blogs run by Nature. A really interesting post on one of the Nature blogs was their investigation of the scientific blogosphere 

Nature Network Blogs http://network.nature.com/blogs

A collection of some 80+ blogs run by scientists on the Nature Network.

Postgenomic http://postgenomic.com/blogs.php

Postgenomic, also from the Nature Publishing Group, harvests about 800 science blogs -including most blogs from the agregators mentioned on this page- and collects what is hot and what not at the moment. The full list of blogs covered is give at this website.

Research Blogging http://researchblogging.org/

A collection of blogposts discussing peer reviewed research

Scienceblogs http://scienceblogs.com/

Perhaps the best known collection of science blogs (including most of top science blogs reported by Nature) which has grown to syndicate some 70 science blogs. 

Scientific American Community Blogs

Just ceased to exists.

Scientific Blogging http://www.scientificblogging.com/

One blog platform hosting many bloggers on various scientific subjects that can be followed with a few feeds per subject.

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