I got an e-mail today from Regator, informing me that we at the Shores of the Dirac Sea have been picked to be in their physics section. The e-mail is from a blog aggregator site. As it sounds, this is a site that links to blog posts and organizes them. It is supposed to help you find quality blogs on various subjects. I thought most of these aggregator sites were self-nominated, but it seems that this one pays a little bit more attention to the content of the sites.
You might recognize a lot of the other physics blogs featured there. I also found this gem while I was browsing around their website, so I thought it was interesting enough to send you guys browsing around to report back 
. Heck, it might even be useful…
Hi! This is Scott from Regator. You’re right we do pay more attention to quality on our site than any other blog aggregator or directory. Glad you found it interesting enough to share! If you or any of your readers have any questions or feedback – please go hesitate to ask or let us know. Cheers!
That should have been don’t hesitate, not go hesitate. late night…
I find all my blogs through word-of-mouth, for what it’s worth.
@saintneko totally understand. We’re looking to complement word of mouth. Sometimes your circle may not know any good blogs on a certain topic… that’s where we’re looking to help out. All of the blogs on our site are reviewed by real people (not robots) and those people have all kinds of pieces of paper and old pay stubs that make them qualified to recommend the blogs.
Directories are useful for users who aren’t savvy enough to use an aggregator themselves, though I have yet to see one actually reach out to that segment of users. For what it’s worth, regator has a simple, clean design at least. And the “What’s Hot” tracking is a nice way to look at trends in a particular category.
Hey Nick, that’s actually a market that we’re actively pursuing with Regator–people who aren’t super-tech-savvy and might not even know what an RSS feed is. We’ve tried to make everything simple enough for those folks while still keeping it useful for more advanced users. Reaching out to those people can be a little difficult because I think many of them do mostly find sites through word of mouth. We’re trying a few different ways to reach them though. If you have any ideas, I’d love to hear them. They’re a bit of a tough crowd to reach. Thanks for the nice comments on the design.