There has been a bit of discussion at Apartment 12 this evening about the Negative273 community, specifically our role in the schoolwide blogscene at WashU. Judging from our stats reports, we seem to get the vast majority of our hits (at least the people that come back, not the people looking for erotic Hispanic middle-schoolers) from others in the community and folks in the CS department in general. Most of the other weblogs in the community, and even ones not hosted by -273, were in some way inspired by -273 itself or one of its "children". However, Amy's site has its own community of WashU folks who have no real connection to this one, and there must be others like it.

As such, I'd like to compile a sort of directory of WashU weblogs if for no other reason then to give us more reading material when people take long vacations from posting. Think of it as WUSphere without the spam. If you know of any weblog written by a WashU student or recent alum, email me with the person's name and the URL of the page. Keep in mind that for the page to qualify as a "weblog" it must feature at least semi-frequent updating and not be just a CEC homepage that says "Hi I'm Dave and I'm a student in CS101". If you're reluctant about revealing yourself to a quasilarge audience of your peers, keep in mind that you're on the internet already which leaves you open to discovery by all sorts of wackos. Hopefully this will help centralize the community and be beneficial to everyone involved. If you have any other suggestions about this sort of topic, shoot me a message at the address linked above and we'll see what we can do.