Tuesday, July 25, 2006

An Academic Justification for Blogging

Brad DeLong makes a great case for blogging in the Chronicle of Higher Education. By the title, I expected him to reference Dooce. Given the personal nature of my blog, I think I'll still avoid sending a link to my deans.

See the article: Can Blogging Derail Your Career?: The Invisible College.

1 comment:

susansinclair said...

You may want to check out conversations around blogging, tenure, and public intellectuals at collinvsblog.net, particularly this post: http://collinvsblog.net/archives/2006/02/seriometer_spike.html

Not surprisingly, comp/rhet folks a) love to talk a lot about writing in all its forms, and b) actually want to theorize this stuff.