My toes are in!
September 21st, 2005
So this is it. I am blogging. I have accepted Dan’s invitation to dip my toes into the blogging waters, despite the terrible consequences for my academic career about which Ivan Tribble so grimly reported recently. You could even say that it was Tribble who gave me the final incentive. His column spawned so many intelligent defences of blogging, that I was inspired to finally start my own weblog.
For if I learned anything from those responses to Tribble’s column, it is that academic bloggers are committed researchers who want to share their work with a broader audience than those who read academic journals. Also, blogs create a virtual community of (young) people interested in the same subject who might normally only meet at conferences once in a while. Read the rest of this entry »
