My first post to this blog noted the relative absence of blogging in the life sciences. Thanks to Notes from the Biomass for pointing out Postgenomic, a new aggregator that promises to be a very interesting way to track the growth of blogging in this area. Created by Stew at Flags and Lollipops, Postgenomic aggregates RSS feeds from life science blogs to give you an idea as to who is linking to which papers, and what they’re saying about them. Nature Genetics currently ranks third (after Nature and Science) in the list of journals that bloggers are linking to (I wonder if it’s all earwax and Abraham Lincoln?). I’ve put in a request to have Free Association added to the list of blogs (replete with rankings of ‘wordiness’ and links per post), and I’ve already come across several good ones that I’d never seen before. This bears watching.