Comments on: Publishing Presentation on Academic Blogging

By: dkane

dkane — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 00:52:53 +0000

Not sure if it is a category worth considering. The blog about Middlebury

http://www.ephblog.com/archives/001866.html

did not last long. The one from Amherst

http://www.amerst.com/

is nicely laid out and regularly updated, but it seems to include no discussion. It is also very nice to Amherst and is, therefore, indistinguishable from something that the public affairs department might put out.

Are there any other examples? None that I know of.

I have a grand vision on what an elite college-centered blog — really an on-line conversation involving technological elements from places like Daily Kos and Red State — might look like, but lack the energy to write it up.

We should do that together! HWC would be pleased to see some Williams/Swarthmore cooperation . . .

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:59:33 +0000

You know, that really is a category I didn’t consider–it doesn’t fall under the headings I offered. Blogs about academic institutions.

By: dkane

dkane — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:26:54 +0000

You forgot institution-centered blogs like, well, EphBlog (www.ephblog.com).

By: duemer

duemer — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:09:32 +0000

I think my blog has diverted a portion of my creative energy away from poetry & toward blogging. I’m fortunate that the chair of my department does not laugh dismissively when I list blogging on my annual faculty activity report. Obviously, this is not the case in most departments. And I didn’t take up blogging until after I had tenure.

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:38:52 +0000

I think sometimes, yes. But not very often. Certainly nowhere near as often as my most apprehensive colleagues believe.

By: Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:34:43 +0000

So: Do blogs take away from publishable writing?

By: duemer

duemer — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:19:52 +0000

Thanks for this outline. I’m sending a link to my dean. There’s one other effect of at least one subset of academic blogs. Poetry bloggers are about evenly divided between academics & non-academics, fostering a useful discussion over the academic fence in at least this one area. As a teaching poet, I’m grateful for this situation. I’ve learned a lot.