Beatrice Lugger is head of the newly founded German science blogging portal ScienceBlogs.de.

I don't think I need to introduce ScienceBlogs.com to any reader here. Hubert Burda Media has now started a German version - ScienceBlogs.de. The site is more multimedia than the US-Version to get more inexperienced science readers to stay on the site. At the moment 27 people are contributing to 22 ScienceBlogs. Their professions range from professors, junior scientists to science journalists. Target audience in Germany are the "Leonardos" - highly educated, urban people between 20-50 years.