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I was recently asked to write a blog post about ''Why I Blog'' for the journal Reconstruction.  I originally posted this to my personal blog (Ponderance), but thought it might be of interest to those just entering the blogosphere ...Beginning and Motivations As someone whose doctoral thesis examined many aspects of digital media, you ...

In today's Age, an fairly decent article, 'Adventures in blog land', looks at the emerging importance of blogging in academia both in building research profiles and allowing academic voices to be heard outside of the ivory towers of the university. Some points worth highlighting: While ordinary folk drive the blogging phenomenon through citizen ...

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 ...