Vote for the Physics Stack Exchange proposal at:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1908/physics

As a physics grad student, I'd love an aggregation site (like Digg, Reddit, or HN) which had the quality of discussion of HN but with a focus on academics instead of IT and startups.

I'd love this to reach a critical mass, but I doubt it.

yea--I thought about this myself and that's always the rub with efforts like this.

but in this case it only has to reach a critical mass within a research group (yours) for it to be useful (http://www.phygg.com/phygg/groups.php).

It looks like just another generic Pligg website using the standard template "wistie"

source: http://www.pligg.com/

yep (you can see link to pligg.com at bottom of phygg.com)...

two research groups are starting to use it, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at UZH and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, so it's more for HNers who are interested in (astro)physics at the research level to check out/use. we're adding interesting papers (cutting edge, fresh off arXiv.org) daily.

Can't you just do this in Digg v4 by following people who share physics stories? I don't really understand what the point of this is.

so "digg for physicists" is simplistic, in reality "Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org"

Umm, that's a little bit an unfortunate name if they ever want to expand into the german speaking part of the web.

(It's 'f*ck' in german.)

Well, it's more like "fück". Still, unfortunate.

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - R. Feynman

It's never really been a problem for fark.com

Wie ist fick gleich phygg??

First, approximate Digg as a sphere...

http://www.reddit.com/r/physics ?

so "digg for physicists" is simplistic, in reality "Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org"

I'm a theoretical physicist-

http://reddit.com/r/physics Hey physics people, check out this shirt I made! 140 votes

vs.

http://phygg.com Analytical expressions for the deprojected Sersic model 5 votes

the latter is more useful for people actually doing research.

Insightful. Point taken.

Should've called it PhyggNewton.

those two g's are risky business.