Category Archives: Blogging

What To Do When Unfogged Is Down

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Timothy Burke

Regarding the Great Greenwald vs. Kerr vs. Ferrell Crooked Timber dustup of April 1st, ok, I’ll bite. Rich Pulchalsky snarks at me enough in the comments, after all. Besides, what the hell, Unfogged is down anyway, so I might as … Continue reading →

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My Books, My Selves

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Timothy Burke

Having one of those stretches where it is really hard to get my head above water. Most of the time March and April are like this. One thing I’ve been doing when I have a spare moment is adding books … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, The Mixed-Up Bookshelves | 2 Comments

Bad Books and Bad Commentariats

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Timothy Burke

I’m far more deferential to general criticisms of professors than most academics are. At a certain point, however, it’s okay to just squawk about kneejerk anti-intellectualism. So, for example, take this response by Carolyn Kellogg at her LA Times book … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Politics, Popular Culture | 3 Comments

From Gourmet to the Daily Gazette

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Timothy Burke

I was reminded for the first time in years of the existence of Gourmet magazine a few weeks ago when a foodie colleague of mine started talking about some recipes she’d made from it recently. I used to subscribe to … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia, Blogging, Food, Information Technology and Information Literacy, Swarthmore | 6 Comments

Student Blogging as Transparency and Education

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Timothy Burke

There’s an interesting piece in the NY Times today about colleges that encourage student blogging as a method of disseminating information about the culture of campus life to prospective students and other outsiders. MIT, unsurprisingly, is the institution with the … Continue reading →

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The Rules of the Game

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Someone asked me in email last week what I thought of James O’Keefe’s video expose of ACORN, specifically whether I thought it was unfair or distorted because O’Keefe wasn’t showing all of the videos where ACORN staff didn’t rise to … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Politics | 7 Comments

Running on Empty

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Ah, the sport of online champions: bashing Maureen Dowd. She makes it so easy. Today’s Dowd breaks down like this: 1) I don’t read the Internet! 2) Neither does Leon Wieseltier! 3) But I hear that someone abused anonymity on … Continue reading →

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Blog Troubles

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Timothy Burke

I think we have everything fixed now here. Let me know if comments are still broken or links to entries here aren’t working.

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Sense and Sensibility

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Timothy Burke

Some more thinking about journalism, the public sphere and policy formation. There was a spirited discussion of breastfeeding last week at a number of blogs, particularly 11d and Crooked Timber. I said my piece in the 11d thread, basically recounting … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Politics | 13 Comments

Journalism, Civil Society and 21st Century Reportage

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Timothy Burke

As the failure of many newspapers looms and public radio cuts its journalistic offerings, the complaint against new media by established journalists gets sharper and sharper. The key rallying cry is that new media can’t provide investigative reporting, that it … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Books, Information Technology and Information Literacy, Miscellany | 18 Comments