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This initiative is much welcome and I will follow it with interest. I would like to make two reflections regarding the initiative as it is presented today:
1. The PLoS initiative in general is one of openness and access. I had envisaged a PLoS blogosphere to be one which is open to all blogs of sufficient quality, rather than a select number of chosen ones. One could easily imagine a peer review system for this and a dynamics of inclusion and possible exclusion of inactive or eventually inappropriate blogs. Any thoughts about this?
2. As opposed to the academic PLoS publications, which are primarly for professionals in different fields (scientists in others), the PLoS blogosphere is expected to be for the general, interested public. In large parts of the world, English is not an accessible language for large parts of that public. Yet there are scientists writing high-quality texts in their own language. I realise that PLoS being an English-language initiative may not having promotion of Portuguese or Swahili or Chinese blogs as a priority, but realising the enormous influence a PLoS blogosphere may have, this is still worthwhile considering.