Concept Pitch

[platypus_herder]

Early in grad school, I picked up the habit of skimming Phys. Rev. Lett. and arXiv/quant-ph for interesting-looking papers and writing two-sentence summaries of their big ideas. I'm thinking of taking the resulting paper-summaries file, or at least its stream of future updates, and putting it online as a blog of sorts. It might look something like this:

• Citation information of papers I read, with a short (~1-3 sentence) summary of what I got out of them (which may or may not be the authors' main point).
• Longer explanations for the lay reader of particularly cool or accessible papers, as and when I have the time and energy for same.
• Areas of interest subject to change, but will likely include atomic physics, physics education, soft matter (“squishy physics”), classical mechanics, and interesting applications of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. More emphasis on cute experiments, intriguing novelties and elegant explanations that on so-called frontier research.
• Sources definitely to include Physical Review Letters, and some subset of
  • New Journal of Physics (open-access, broad coverage)
  • Physical Review A (atomic physics)
  • Physical Review E (soft matter)
  • Physical Review X (the APS's new competitor to NJP)
  • Physical Review Special Topics-Physics Education Research
  • American Journal of Physics (physics education, undergrad-and high-school level experiments and problems, counterintuitive phenomena in simple physics) ¨
  • Reviews of Modern Physics (overviews of fields too young to have textbooks)
  I probably won't be looking at Nature or Science (low signal-to-hype ratio, widely covered elsewhere) or the arXiv (unrefereed, too high a volume for such a broad swathe of fields; I can't even keep up with quant-ph).
• Bibliographic entries for random novels, movies, musical works etc. may leak in from the rest of my life.
• Working title is Fysik.bib.

If you'd find such a site interesting or useful, let me know; I've benefitted from the review-blogging that others have done, but this doesn't have as obviously broad an appeal as, say, a primer on sci-fi anthologies or even Slavic literature.
Also, if any of you have suggestions for a suitable platform, I'd like to hear them. Ideally I'd like to just write a BiBTeX entry followed by a paragraph or two of text. Displaying these verbatim with a few navigation links would be fine, the ability to embed a little math would be luxury. This could all be done on LJ, but as the project doesn't rely on LJ's community-oriented features it seems a good excuse to explore elsewhere.