Comments on: Flawless Victory

By: Caleb

Caleb — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:37:57 +0000

I guess in some sense I have to be optimistic since I’ve already chosen my horse.

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:05:06 +0000

I wouldn’t invest the effort in trying to find out. Though I suspect that if someone did, it wouldn’t be that hard to piece together. But if it did come out, so what, unless one of the candidates in question wants to bring a case? The thing that makes me feel a bit down, pessimistic where Caleb is optimistic, is that I think Tribble’s views would be passively endorsed by a great many senior faculty. Some because of general antipathy to technology, some because of general desire to control forms and norms of publication and interaction with the public sphere, and a small number because they’ve heard of this “blog” thing and they don’t like what they’ve heard. The weaknesses in Tribble’s reasoning probably matter less in that respect than the general confirmation of prejudice.

By: Witchy Prof

Witchy Prof — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:53:19 +0000

Does “Tribble” really expect that his/her identity will remain anonymous? It’s bound to leak, sooner or later. Then everybody will be blogging about his/her department’s “dirty laundry.” What’s with this kind of Big Brother sneakiness?

By: Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:18:47 +0000

I wonder if, in a twisted way, Tribble’s column has been good for academic blogging. I’d like to imagine that Chronicle readers who were uninformed or honestly on the fence about blogs were not decisively pushed into Tribble’s camp by such passages.

Maybe Ivan Tribble will end up being to blogging what Edmund Burke was to the French Revolution.