Do Engineers Blog?

It’s my brother’s birthday today so I’m thinking about engineers. He said not long ago that he wasn’t into blogging, couldn’t actually understand it. So I had to go searching and he’s right; engineers don’t blog much, especially his kind – forensic naval engineers.

Don’t know why – they have plenty of interesting stuff to talk about. A few years ago he was part of an expedition to the Titanic sponsored by the Discovery Channel. He kept a journal of those days at sea, and I discovered a poetic side of my big brother I had never seen. Who knew he could write so eloquently about moonlight and waves and night skies? This was B.B.E. (before the blogging era), but he was a natural.

Here’s what I found of engineers’ blogs after I eliminated any corporate or team blogs that are just another form of corporate promotion, or blogs devoted to one product (like the blog that tracks issues related to Adobe’s flash player.) I don’t have anything against them, just not what I was looking for:

Water and Wastewater Blog = http://www.waterandwastewater.com/blog/
an industrial blog for the water and wastewater treatment professional

Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog = http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net/
Science and Engineering: Innovation, Research, Science and Economics

Scobelizer = http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/
Robert Scoble gives his personal opinion on IT subjects.

LiveScience Blogs = http://www.livescience.com/blogs/
Your daily dose of science scuttlebutt…in a variety of categories.

Science Blog = http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/index.php
Wide range of subjects and tongue-in-cheek advertising

I can’t say that the wastewater blog does much for me, but that Science Blog and Curious Cat are both worth an occasional visit. Now all you engineers out there…why are you not in the blogosphere?