As you may or may not have noticed, I've been bringing to your attention recent, interesting posts from blogs nominated for the Wampum Awards for Best Expert Blog. I've focused only on blogs in biology, evolution, language, or cognitiion. These include Language Log, John Hawks, and Keats' Telescope and Mixing Memory.

There's something disturbing about the blogs nominated for these awards: there are no experts in computer science, software, the internet, or anything of the sort.

To some extent, this is because there aren't as many good candidates. I've been busting my ass trying to find a blog in artificial intelligence as good as Pharyngula, and I'm having no luck.

Dr. Thomas once explained the problem to me thusly: "We were all on ARPANet, when it was cool. Now everyone's doing it, we aren't interested. When we find something else we can hang out on by ourselves, we'll be there."

Still, this represents serious snubbing of electronic experts and bloggers such as Ed Felton, Joel Spolsky, and Jeff Zeldman.

Next year, something well have to be done about this.

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