Erik Marshall

Someone called me from the Chronicle of Higher Ed the other day to ask me about blogging and job searches. Apparently they ran something on the topic before, and I responded to it, and she tracked me down. I don’t remember the post, or my comment, but I told her that I really don’t know [...]

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I am trying out feedburner for this blog and some other stuff. What I want to do is compile one RSS feed with ALL my stuff on it – flickr, del.icio.us, netflix rss, audioscrobbler, so you can either click a link or subscribe to a feed that has everything i am doing on it. Why [...]

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Here’s an angle I hadn’t yet thought of. David Weinberger has an interesting anecdote about a piece about blogging that MSNBC wanted him to do to which he objected based on the fact that the piece implies that “the blogosphere consists of big voices arguing with one another — spit fights! — instead of 10 [...]

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This article (reg required) in today’s NYTimes poses some interesting questions about employment and expression. Summary: An employee of technorati posted a blog entry intended “to provide a harsh comment on the growing fears among corporations over the blogging activities of their employees” and technorati asked him to take it down. He complied. This story [...]

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Day to Day ran an interesting piece on people getting fired for blogging. There was a term for it that I couldn’t catch – I thought it was “deuce” or “duce” – as a verb for getting fired for blogging. A quick websearch turned up this blog, which tells me the word is “dooced,” named [...]

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I got hit with some heavy-duty comment spam while on vacation. Every single one of my entries received a cryptic comment directing people to a website, which I have not visited, because why encourage them? I will delete them soon, when I have time, but it looks like I will also have to go to [...]

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Jill Walker has an interesting post that talks about a link between blogging and academic writing, suggesting a sort of synergy between the two. That’s what I have been hoping would happen here, as I blog as I think as I generate more ideas, maybe get some feedback, fold it all back into my writing. [...]

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