Academic Blogs
Sources of information about academic blogs and blogging
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s recent article, “Scholars Who Blog,” is a good place to start to learn about academic blogging. You’ll need a subscription and password to read this article online on the Chronicle’s website.
The article reported that Glenn H. Reynolds’ Instapundit blog gets 100,000 accesses a day, making it the most-visited blog by a scholar.
To see how powerful blogs can be, however, read the Chronicle’s account of Eric Muller’s blog and how he used it to rebut comments by a North Carolina representative about Japanese-American internment during World War II. Muller’s blog: Is that Legal?.
For a list of academic blogs, see Rhetorica.
John K. Wilson blogs about academic freedom.
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