Some Examples of Good Postgraduate and Academic Blogging ...
Here are some suggestions of blogs to illustrate how postgrads and academics are using blogging.
Feedback is welcome ...
A few good postgraduate and early career academic blogs:
Thoughts from Kansas / Joshua Rosenau, USA
"A graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas by day, an activist by dinnertime."
The Internet Genealogy Community Study Blog / Kylie Veale, Curtin University
"An Australian 'Internet Studies' PhD student researching online genealogy within the broader context of hobbyist Internet usage."
apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed / danah boyd, USA
"i'm a PhD student in SIMS at Berkeley and a social media researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. Buzzwords in my world include: identity, context, social networks, youth culture, social software, performance, Friendster, MySpace."
Brian's Stufy Breaks / Brian Ulrich
"a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Wisconsin, specializing in the medieval history of North Africa and the Middle East."
Ponderance / Tama Leaver, UWA
"Tama Leaver's thoughts on the blogosphere, podosphere, popular culture, digital media and citizen journalism shovelled online from a laptop computer somewhere in Perth's isolated miniature urban jungle .."
Andrew Leigh / Fellow, Social Policy Analysis, Evaluation and Research Centre, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
"New ideas on economics, politics and current events, from an Antipodean perspective"
home cooked theory / Melissa Gregg, University of Queensland
"Melissa Gregg is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include cultural studies, media studies, feminism, politics and critical theory."
Pharyngula / PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
"Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal."
Ray Mikell / Augusta State University
"I teach general American politics and government at the university level. My primary interest, however, lies in the study of community development and urban and local government policy and general public policy, as well as issues related to community organization."
A few established blogs:
lessig blog / Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Professor of Law
"Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago."
smARThistory
"General Musings about using Technology to Teach with Images by two art historians Beth Harris & Steven Zucker"
Crooked Timber
"Out of the Crooked Timber of Humanity, No Straight Thing was Ever Made." (Group blog on Philosophy and Politics)
Worth thinking about:
Reynolds, "
How To Blog And Not Lose Your Job", Random Acts of Reality, March 17, 2005