I’m slated to present some thoughts at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City on Saturday, August 9th, from 4:45-6:15. The panel session, La Vida Online, will be about the blogging lifestyle.
Heather B. Armstrong (dooce.com) is also lined up for this panel. Recently named as one of the five most influential bloggers, her talk is sure to be a bit irreverent and provocative. The panel will be digitally recorded and available for download following the event.
Would you mind taking a moment to help me troubleshoot a few items on this site? Can you try clicking on the ’subscribe to podcast’ and ’subscribe to blogfeed’ links in the sidebar and let me know if you encounter any errors?
Also, do you see the orange feed icon in the navigation bar on your browser when you are at this site?
Can you drop a line in the comments section of this post letting me know of any problems you encounter? Or if you have no problems, can you inform me of that, too? Thank you.
To blog or not to blog? Will it hurt or enhance a career? In what ways can it augment academic book sales and foster community?
Adam Kotsko’s (tongue in cheek) reply:
The monograph: dead. The peer-reviewed journal: dead. The classroom: dead. Only blogging can guarantee the future of academic discourse, and indeed it is the only thing keeping it alive in the present! Open up your eyes, people! Look around you! Everywhere you look: blogs, beautiful blogs! Our blogs will give us tenure. Our blogs will give us cultural relevance. Our blogs will help us get the attention of that girl from college who was really cool but only seemed to want to date assholes. And if we manage to get into a flamewar along the way, all to the good.
Some links to discussions about academic blogging:
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