Advice about Commenting

• Are You Well Versed in Comment Etiquette, by Erica Johnson

Links for today's blogging course

Ivan Tribble's infamous "Bloggers Need Not Apply."

Blogs to look at

1. Ian Bogost (games scholar @ GA Tech)
2. GrrlScientist (on ScienceBlogs)
3. Nat Turner's Revenge (Georgetown Journalism Prof Christopher Chambers)
4. Ann Althouse (UW Law Prof)
5. The Well-Tempered Ear (Jacob Stockinger, Madison-based music blogger)
6. Faculty blogs from Princeton University
7. The Education Optimists (Prof. Sara Goldfrick-Rab, UW-Madison)
   

Blogging advice

Sophisticated Dorkiness (Kim's collected advice on blogging)

Chris Brogan (focused on business and image-promoting)

Bad Language (Matthew Stibbe's advice, focused on social blogging & style)

Blogs written by graduate students

1. Is there no sin in it? (pseudonymous graduate student in the humanities)
2. Stressful Times for Psyc Girl (pseudonymous graduate student in the sciences)
   
3. Of Two Minds (named graduate students in the sciences)
4. Sophisticated Dorkiness (master's student in journalism)
5. More named graduate student bloggers
   

Blogs written by professors

1. Reassigned Time (pseudonymous professor in the humanities)
2. FemaleScienceProfessor (pseudonymous professor in the sciences)
3. See Jane Compute (pseudonymous professor in the sciences)
   
4. Tenured Radical (named professor in the social sciences)
5. More named professorial bloggers

Collective blogs

1. Crooked Timber (named group of tech-friendly profs)
2. Terranova (blog on games research)
3. Dane 101 (Madison local news and events)
4. Blogora (sponsored by the Rhetoric Society of America)
5. GeekFeminism (women & men blogging about tech culture)

Blog clearinghouses

1. Inside Higher Ed (list of academic bloggers)
2. HASTAC (blogging "fellows" blog directly on the site)
3. Science Blogs (tons of different blogs categorized by field)
4. The Atlantic (magazine site that includes political bloggers across a spectrum)

Lists of academic bloggers

• Academic Blog Portal
• Personal blogs by academics
• UW-Madison blogs
  
• Crooked Timber (no longer updated)

Librarian bloggers

Librarians are among the most prolific academic bloggers. These three links point toward the depth of work posted online by librarians, but barely hint at its breadth.

• Joy Weese Moll
• Caveat Lector
• Jessica Baumgart
  

Articles about academic blogging

• Erasing Divide, College Leaders Take to Blogging (New York Times, 11/21/07)
• Patricia McGuire's blog (president of Trinity University)
• Robert L. Caret's blog (present of Towson University)
• Dick Celeste's blog (president of Colorado College)
• Lou Anna K. Simon's blog (president of Michigan State University)
• Bloggers Need Not Apply (Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/8/05)
• Do Not Fear the Blog (Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/14/05)
  
• George at Workbook crafted a long post that defends academic blogging, pointing especially to graduate students and assistant professors who reached tenure despite having public blogs. George also notes that one blogger was refused tenure (at U. Chicago), presumably because of his blogging -- although that blogger is now tenured at Tufts. [Update 2/26/07: George corrected my bad skimming of his remarks in the comments below. Thank you, George!]
• Scot Barnett, a fellow Writing Center instructor and a prolific blogger, responds to our announcement of this course. See you on Wednesday, Scot!
  

Academic group bloggers

• Geography dept., UW-Madison
• Blackprof
• Edublogs
• ScienceBlogs
  
• Terra Nova

Anonymous academic bloggers (graduate students and professors)

• Ancrene Wiseass
  
• Bitch Ph.D.
• Confessions of a Community College Dean
• CultureSpace (History)
  
• Decoys (Philosophy, Durham U.)
  
• Doctorating
• Ferule & Fescue
• First Efforts
  
• Gentleman's C
  
• In Favor of Thinking (English)
  
• Is There No Sin In It? (English)
• Larval Subjects (Philosophy)
  
• Law and Letters (Law)
• Modern Kicks (Art History)
  
• Month of June (Composition)
  
• Most Cake
• Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient (English)
  
• New Kid on the Hallway (History)
• Notes of a Neophyte
  
• Phronesisaical (English; Public Policy)
  
• Posthegemony (Political theory, U. of British Columbia)
  
• Quod She (Medieval literature)
• Reassigned Time (Literature)
  
• Roughtheory (Social Sciences)
  
• See Jane Compute (Computer Science)
  
• Stressful times for psyc girl
• Tomemos
  
• Uncomplicatedly (English)
• Workbook (English)
  

Grad student bloggers (named)

• Composition and Cultural Rhetoric: Derek Mueller (Syracuse U.)
  
• English: Scot Barnet (UW-Madison), Chris Drew (Temple), Scott Erik Kaufman (UC-Irvine), Adam Koehler (UW-Madison), Joseph Kugelmass (UC-Irvine)
  
• History: Brian Ulrich (UW-Madison)
• Neuroscience: Shelley Batts (U. Michigan)
  
• Political science: Jay Cost (U. Chicago)
  

Blogging professors

• Art: Elouise Oyzon (RIT)
• Art History: Jonathan Sterne (McGill U.)
  
• Communication Studies: Joshua Gresham Gunn (UT-Austin)
• Education: James Paul Gee (Arizona State U.), The Education Optimistics, by Sara Goldrick-Rab (UW-Madison) and Liam Goldrick
  
• Educational Psychology: David Williamson Shaffer (UW-Madison)
  
• English: Daniel Anderson (UNC-Chapel Hill), Miriam Elizabeth Burstein (SUNY Brockport), Shannon LC Cate (U. of Maryland), Jenny Davidson (Columbia), Jenny Edbauer (Penn State U.), Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College), Jonathan Goodwin (East Carolina U.), Byron Hawk (George Mason U.), Miriam Jones (U. of New Brunswick, St. John), Matthew Kirschenbaum (U. Maryland, College Park), Amitava Kumar (Vassar College), Richard Nokes (Troy U.), Clancy Ratliff (East Carolina U.), Jeff Rice (Wayne State U.), Spencer Schaffner (U. of Illinois), Margaret Soltan (George Washington), Donna Stickland (U. of Missouri)
  
• and Speech Communication: Debra Hawhee (U. of Illinois)
• Film and Media Studies: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson (UW-Madison), Chuck Tyron (Fayetteville State U.)
• History: Timothy Burke (Swarthmore College), Rebecca Goetz (Rice)
• Humanistic Informatics: Jill Walker (U. of Bergen)
  
• Humanities: Anne Frances Wysocki (Michigan Technological U.)
  
• Information: Andrew Dillon (U. Texas), Elizabeth Jane Lawley (RIT)
  
• International Politics: David W. Drezner (Tufts)
• Journalism: Greg Downey (UW-Madison)
  
• Law: Ann Althouse (UW-Madison), Nina Camic (UW-Madison), Lawrence Lessig (Stanford), Oscar Madison (real name and location unknown)
• Limnology: Daviel Collins (UW-Madison)
• Media & Cultural Studies: Ted Striphas (Indiana U.)
  
• Political Theory: Jodi Dean (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
• Rhetoric: Jennifer Bay (Purdue), Bill Degenaro (UM-Dearborn), Clay Spinozzi (UT-Austin)
  
• Sociology: Jeremy Freese (UW-Madison)
• Writing: Collin Brooke (Syracuse U.), Rebecca Moore Howard (Syracuse U.), Liz Losh (UC-Irvine), Alex Reid (SUNY Cortland)