A very use­ful way of keep­ing up with blogs in a par­tic­u­lar area is to sub­scribe to a blog aggre­ga­tor. These will syn­di­cate posts from a large num­ber of blogs and pro­vide links back to the orig­i­nal sources. So you only need to sub­scribe once to get all the good stuff in that area.

There are now sev­eral blog aggre­ga­tors avail­able that might be of inter­est to read­ers here. And this blog is now syn­di­cated on sev­eral other sites includ­ing those listed below.

• R-​​bloggers: for all R-​​related blogs. The posts tagged R from this blog are syn­di­cated there along with about 300 other R blogs.
• Stats­blogs for sta­tis­ti­cal blogs. This is a very new aggre­ga­tor, but is grow­ing fast. There is nat­u­rally some over­lap with R-​​bloggers. All posts from this blog are syn­di­cated there.
• TeX com­mu­nity for TeX related blogs. The posts tagged LaTeX from this blog are syn­di­cated there along with about 40 other TeX blogs.
• Math​blog​ging​.org aggre­gates a num­ber of math­e­mat­ics blogs. All posts from this blog are syn­di­cated there.

In addi­tion, for those inter­ested in eco­nom­ics, EconAca​d​e​mics​.org aggre­gates a num­ber of eco­nom­ics blogs (but does not include this blog as I rarely post any­thing about economics).

I have also set up two aggre­ga­tions for new research papers:

• Sta­tis­tic­sPa­pers includes all papers appear­ing in over 60 of the major sta­tis­tics jour­nals as well as the sta­tis­tics sec­tion of arXiv.
• Fore­cast­ing papers includes all new papers on fore­cast­ing that have appeared on RePEc or in either the Inter­na­tional Jour­nal of Fore­cast­ing or the Jour­nal of Fore­cast­ing. The papers from RePEc con­sti­tute the weekly NEP-​​FOR report.

So if all the blogs around are over­whelm­ing, and you don’t know where to start, select one or two of these aggre­ga­tors and you’re off and running.

If you’ve no idea how to sub­scribe to a blog, see my post on using Google Reader.

Related Posts:

• Using Google Reader
• Blogs about research
• Join­ing an edi­to­r­ial board
• Jour­nal collections
• Fore­cast­ing the Olympics