Comments on: Academic blogs link-begging

By: reqfd.net / sailing beyond a sunset

reqfd.net / sailing beyond a sunset — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:28:53 +0000

[...] at CT wants additions to his Academic Blogs wiki—which wiki bears metainterest for its classification scheme, too (”Professions and [...]

By: Tim Lacy

Tim Lacy — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:24:29 +0000

Henry: I discovered your wiki site via Ralph Luker at Cliopatria, and went ahead and added two blogs. It looks like a great resource, so I added a link to its “History” category at my web main blog, History And Education. – Tim

By: Lord Acton

Lord Acton — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:17:06 +0000

Henry:

Does it bother you that 70% of IR faculty self
identify themselves as Liberal? Which, in real
world terms, since they compare themselves
against their peers, that the actual figure
is probably over 90%?

Doesn’t that skew the results?

Or do you think that over 70% of people in the
“real world” self-identify themselves as
liberal?

By: Eszter

Eszter — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:42:10 +0000

One of my students will be requesting responses to a survey on academic blogging soon, if you hear from her – Gina Walejko – please respond!

Henry, thanks for all the work you’ve put into this very helpful resource!

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:54:08 +0000

Hi Bruce

I’m sort of hoping that people like you will add this level of detail (not being familiar with the subfields in many disciplines myself …)

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:27:34 +0000

Henry – went ahead and emailed you offline. ;)

By: bruce

bruce — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:20:42 +0000

Fantastic resource, what would really help though is a few details in the listing so you don’t have to open every page to find something in a certain sub-field.

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:12:39 +0000

kelly – the rule of thumb I use here is that if a discipline has a significant number of departments specializing in it (say eight or nine), I add it to the parent tree; if not, it should go under a specific discipline. I recognize that bioethics, if it doesn’t qualify under that rule, is in an awkward position – I might perhaps create a new parent category for ‘emerging fields’ or the like, which would include it.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:23:13 +0000

I keep thinking of adding a few blogs that I read (and admittedly, write for) to the list, but deciding where to stick bioethics is just a headache. Given that there seem to be some in several categories, what chance would there be of having a parent category for bioethics added?

By: bi

bi — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:00:35 +0000

What, is there no mention of the upcoming blogwars as prophesied by Adam Kotsko?

By: Baptiste

Baptiste — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:19:24 +0000

The academic “blogosphère” is exploding in France. Three years ago, when I was looking for French sociology blogs, I found only one ( http://coulmont.com/blog/2003/07/09/blogs-et-sociologie/ ).
Today, French sociologists—and intellectuels—seem to be courted by the mainstream press : some newspapers and magazines have installed blogging platforms on their websites http://lemonde.fr and http://nouvelobs.com (see phnk )
It may be a short term explosion…