physics blogging I don't know who originally developed the theoretical construct of a physics blog, but this construct seems to parallel string theory a lot. My apologies to "Not Even Wrong" and other dissenting blogs.
Just as string theory is an attempt to resolve the incompatibilities between quantum theory and general relativity, physics blogs could be attempts to resolve the incompatibilities between LQG people and string people. "Could be." Of course, that isn't really happening, although I hope this blog will do that.
I wonder how many physics bloggers are actually- personally- in contact with each other (by that I mean they don't just know each other through the blogging culture). I'd like to know if non-string (not necessarily contra-string) bloggers and pro-string bloggers have real discussions in real time.
I don't think too many of them do. I don't think too many people know the real identities of Angry Physics (http://angryphysics.blogspot.com/)or Absinthe (http://radio.weblogs.com/0151290/), either. If we don't know their identities, we can't really judge them, can we?
Unfortunately, I think that physics blogging (as a whole) is discouraging a lot of people from becoming physicists. (I say "as a whole" to avoid hypocrisy.) If so many people portray the physics culture as a bleak, impersonal culture... is that going to inspire people? Is that an honest portrayal? I say a resounding "no" to both questions.  ¶ 10:21 PM