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Blogs in class

By erik, on January 21st, 2012%

In yesterday’s NYTimes, Matt Richtel has an article entitled “Blogs vs Term Papers,” in which he sketches a debate about college writing. Cathy Davidson responds brilliantly, talking at length about her own experience with teaching methods that stray from the traditional academic writing still taught in many places.

Even Richtel’s piece points out the false . . . → Read More: Blogs in class

Reflections at 300

By erik, on August 4th, 2010%

According to WordPress this will be my 300th post.1 Considering that I have been doing this since May 2004, that’s not really a lot. About 4 posts/month. Many blogs reach 300 in less than a year. I am not really that concerned about volume, though. Sure, there have been times I thought I should blog . . . → Read More: Reflections at 300

Writing and Blogging

By erik, on January 15th, 2009%

I’ve been worrying that blogging has hurt my academic writing, and twitter has hurt my blogging. All my thoughts come, I’ve been afraid, in tiny 140 character chunks, instead of complex, well-articulated arguments. But that’s not true. It is more or less a matter of habit and attention, among other things.

This brings to mind . . . → Read More: Writing and Blogging

Hello class

By erik, on October 19th, 2007%

This post is for my American Studies class. I was getting frustrated trying to put links into blackboard, so I thought I’d just put this here. It also lets the general public participate, if you want.

Check out some of the blogs listed here. Start here, clicking on some the blogs in my . . . → Read More: Hello class

Blogging and jobs

By , on October 5th, 2005%

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 . . . → Read More: Blogging and jobs

Feedburner

By , on June 14th, 2005%

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 . . . → Read More: Feedburner

Media on blogging

By , on April 22nd, 2005%

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 . . . → Read More: Media on blogging

Blogging and work

By , on April 20th, 2005%

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 . . . → Read More: Blogging and work

NPR Story on Blogging

By , on January 19th, 2005%

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 . . . → Read More: NPR Story on Blogging

Comment Spam

By , on January 3rd, 2005%

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 . . . → Read More: Comment Spam

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