Comments on: Academic Blogging

By: Richard Zach

Richard Zach — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:15:02 +0000

Yes, I mean really senior.

By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 03:44:55 +0000

Richard – Doesn’t immediately post-tenure fall under “senior level” in terms of hiring? I would imagine the targetted searches are more likely at some point farther on, but by that point name recognition should probably be established independent of a blog. I would imagine.

By: meik roemer

meik roemer — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:39:10 +0000

Academic blogging is still in its infancy here in Germany, but as far as I understand, there is a difference between a dooce-like journal and an academic blog. Academia mostly IS about publishing your “ideas”, so what is the difference in the long run between blogging your ideas or get them published in a magazine? You will always make some friends with your research and there will always be some catfighting….

http://www.zeichenkoerper.de

By: Richard Zach

Richard Zach — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:57:35 +0000

And in the long run, there are some things that you should be writing on a blog.

Surely this is true, but probably you meant to note that there are also things you should not be writing on a blog.

I was wondering about the practice of “targetted searches”—I thought that they happened mostly at the senior level. They happen more at the immediate post-tenure level, you say? I’ll expect the unsolicited job offers to roll in this year, then.

By: Marcus Stanley

Marcus Stanley — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:48:55 +0000

When my brother and I did a blog guest spot once, Jason asked Brian for advice on blogging. Brian apparently told him the single most important thing to know is “don’t blog drunk”. This made me curious to hear the experiences that led Brian to this advice, but Jason did not know them. Now in this post we again see multiple admonitions to avoid blogging drunk. I am even more curious now :-)

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 03:16:37 +0000

I can definitely say that it helps with networking. So far, two conference invitations (one with people I’d lost track of, the other with other bloggers), some great advice on work, and a non-paid editorial position that gets my real name out there. Not to mention the chance to read a chapter by a C-Timberite before the book came out!

By: dipnut

dipnut — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:27:38 +0000

Sorry to see everybody already jumped on the copyediting. I was going to mention that blogging too has been very for a engineering livelihood, as well.

By: Blog de Viajes » Blogs academicos, mas aportes

Blog de Viajes » Blogs academicos, mas aportes — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:23:23 +0000

[...] En Crooked Timber publican otro artículo más sobre blogs académicos, y que retoma discusiones que se vienen dando en Chronicle Careers y History News Network. Esta vez más enfocado sobre una pregunta muy usual: ¿me puede ayudar en mi carrera universitaria el hecho de tener un blog? La polémica arrancó desde esta columna en Chronicle Careers, donde un docente de una universidad, bajo el seudónimo de Ivan Tribble, contaba como, en un proceso de selección de docentes, el hecho de que algunos seleccionados tenían blogs había jugado en contra de ellos. ¿Por qué? Los jurados habían accedido a diversos tipos de escritos, algunos de ellos muy personales, y se habían formado una particular idea del candidato. A diferencia de buena parte de las publicaciones académicas, los blogs suelen carecer de métodos externos de evaluación, como referatos o selecciones de textos a publicar. Y, además, suele ser material de acceso mucho más difícil. La Red tiene memoria a largo plazo, y todo lo que publicamos aparece en Google, al alcance de quien buscarlo. Y justamente, aquellos textos que menos trabajo nos han tomado ~~los artículos en los blogs~~ son más fáciles de encontrar que los que más tarea nos han requerido -los papers y otro tipo de publicación académica. Es sencillo pensar, entonces, que nuestros escritos pueden llegar a tener consecuencias sobre nuestro futuro laboral. [...]

By: Kimmitt

Kimmitt — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:07:04 +0000

“blogging can be extremely for an young academic career”

you’re surely not from an academic background, are you?

By: paul lawson

paul lawson — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:05:41 +0000

Academic blogging? It certainly fits the Giddens/Thompson/Slevin notion of “cultural transmission” on a timely, rather than Reed/Kluwer ‘arms dealer’ basis.

Who would know, if lively minds did not explore and contend? In near real time.

Risk and reward.

Dunno how it works in the ‘meat market’, but in a wider world, it is a joy, and a source for further conjecture.

(And hat tip to matt for http://www.ratemyprofessor.com
coming to some in this part of the antipodes, real soon now, and do they deserve it.)

By: Kevin Donoghue

Kevin Donoghue — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:16:31 +0000

… I think there’s no offer I got that the blog was the deciding factor in giving me the blog.

This post is a philosopher’s joke, I take it? Will there be an annotated version for the lay reader?

By: dp

dp — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:12:36 +0000

‘ an young academic career’? SInce when does young have a silent y?

By: fjm

fjm — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:05:36 +0000

I use mine as a research diary. Mostly it’s there to keep me plugging away at what is actually the next research project, not the current one.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:48:01 +0000

Brian,
I don’t think you need a blog to get name recognition when you have students posting remarks about you like this:
” very cool class. weatherson is adorably australian and very approachable, helpful, and seems really really smart. get him while he’s young, fresh and still giggly during lecture. i’ll definitly take another course of his.”
see:
http://www.ratemyprofessor.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=478914

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:41:13 +0000

Brian should take the blogging survey too… :)

http://rebecca-goetz.blogspot.com/2005/09/tribble-fall-out-and-what-we-can-do.html