Here at BlogScholar.com we always appreciate a nice tribute but surely its taking it a bit far to launch an "Academic Blog Portal" without a single reference to our delightful little non-profit enterprise of the same name on the other side of the Atlantic.

The launch of academicblogs.org spins out the Crooked Timber list of academic blogs into a wiki-blogroll of academics involved in blogging. BlogScholar will be watching the relative success of this venture with great interest as the biggest challenge around here is managing the editing process of submissions to the directory. For every blog that is accepted in the directory ten are declined. Typical examples include face reconstrcution treatements entered into "engineering", viagra salesmen into "chemistry", and (the cheek of it all) spam marketing tools in "business". We have worked very hard to keep the blogs in the directory relevent to the disciplines but have been exploring options including wikis on how to expand this capability.