Blogs have been around for some time. From the wikepedia:
The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999.
Blogs in science, on the other hand, have only recently become popular. The first two traditional science news journals to pick up the raising interest in scientific blogging were The-Scientist in August 2005, and then Nature in December 2005. Since then many more scientist have picked up blogging for a variety of purposes (see review by Coturnix). The science journals have been slowly reacting. Here is a current list of blogs from science journal blogs or publishing groups. If anyone knows more please leave a comment and I will add them to the list.
| Journal | Blog |
| The Scientist | |
| Scientific American | |
| Nature publishing group | |
| Nature Journals | |
| Nature Genetics | |
| Nature Neuroscience | |
| Nature Methods | |
| Nature Medicine | |
| Nature News | |
| Chemistry at Nature (portal not journal) | |
| Nature publishing group | |
| Nature publishing group | |
| Nature publishing group | |
| Heredity | |
| Public Library of Science | |
| PLoS Blogs | |
| PLoS publishing | |
| PLoS Technology | |
| PLoS Medicine | |
| The Lancet | |
| Science | The Weblog of Science Magazine"s (stopped) |