Comments on: Aggregation and academic blogroll

By: Delaney J. Kirk

Delaney J. Kirk — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 01:57:30 +0000

I’m trying to find others that are blogging about classroom management and tips for teaching, regardless of discipline…

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:46:49 +0000

re: 9> many thanks, Ralph. Now I’m embarrassed for not having read the whole page here: I guess when I get the time I’ll trawl through all of “the lumber room” and CT’s list of academic bloggers…

By: Long Sunday

Long Sunday — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:32:47 +0000

[...AggAcad: Saving decentralization, fighting diffusion and common clutter, cat pictures and obscurity...]

By: Gustav

Gustav — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:43:53 +0000

People in the life sciences do something interesting over at postgenomic: aggregating life science blogs, collecting information of what papers are discussed, conferences held and upcoming automatic generation of buzzwords, keywords and “hot papers”, &c. RSS all over the place.

It is new and at an experimental stage, but might postgenomic be a way to use the web for something useful, as a kind of extended peer review; an extra layer in the life of scientific communication, besides the time-honored activities such as papers, conferences, seminars?

Is something similar for the social sciences/humanities (about as broad a definition as the life sciences, I guess) possible?

By: Ralph Luker

Ralph Luker — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:40:53 +0000

For history, I modestly recommend Cliopatria's History Blogroll, where we list about 400 history blogs, including primary source and non-English language blogs.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:56:09 +0000

“There are already several edited web directories.”

…could anyone help out a hopeless noob like myself and say where they are?

If they’re discipline-specific, then I’d find ones relating to history and sociology most useful.

Thanks

By: todd.

todd. — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:51:15 +0000

then all that boring inputting stuff could be delegated to a hungry grad student

It would probably be easier to find a hungry grad student with a blog who wants to be linked to from a bunch of appreciative academic bloggers.

By: LowLife

LowLife — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 15:28:04 +0000

Hopefully, this site will include pictures of professors in revealing clothes (or none at all) and drinking with underaged students. Afterall, we want it to generate some traffic, don’t we?

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:34:40 +0000

Did you think that we could get a grant for this? Maybe from an education foundation, like Spencer. Maybe Harry has some connections there. If someone can get the dough, then all that boring inputting stuff could be delegated to a hungry grad student. I think that the Chronicle of Higher Ed also started putting together a list.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:19:37 +0000

Interesting proposals. I think it would also be helpful to begin crossing back to the other side of the looking glass – too few academics (even the young ones) are even aware that online academic publishing exists. It seems there’s a need (if not demand) for workshops or panels at the major conferences of virtually every discipline in the academy.

By: ben alpers

ben alpers — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:24:25 +0000

A fine idea but it desperately needs a more attractive name.

By: sunship

sunship — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:36:18 +0000

There are already several edited web directories. You could use those for instead of reinventing the wheel with a wiki.

AggAcad sounds useful because it seems to combine the existing techs of web directories and rss type feeds.

By: Epiphatic Exhaustion » Academic Blogging: Making Moves Toward Legitimacy

Epiphatic Exhaustion » Academic Blogging: Making Moves Toward Legitimacy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:24:07 +0000

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