Jeremy Young has an excellent post on blogging, peer review, and tenure/promotion decisions in the academy. The post is similar in focus to the presentation I delivered on the Carpenter-Drezner-Walt panel at the International Studies Association. The particularly interesting bits: [Laurel Thatcher Ulrich suggested that]...
hopefully rare metablogging
I shouldn't be surprised. Some milblogger compiles a list of quotations from "largely clueless" folks "living in ivory towers" who mocked the wingnut flash mob that appeared around the Beauchamp.
See Lauren and Jane Hamsher. Obviously, it's a tough line to walk when you try to discuss the legitimate issue of the underrepresentation of women in the blogopshere without slighting.
All,As tempting as it may be to feed Fred, please don't; we're currently exploring ways to get rid of him. Until we do, please just let him rant.The Management
John Holbo links to the dispute between Scott Kaufman and a commenter at Jesus' General. Long story short, a disagreement in comments at JG escalated into a full broadside denunciation.
Having been persuaded by several recent arguments that mocking the earnest and well-meaning artists of the world only hurts America's youth, I can only imagine what a post like this.
A TBogg commenter claims that d's recent worst-American profile means that L, G & M has "jumped the shark." And you know, I think he has a point; it was horribly unfair to John Wayne Gacy and Roy Cohn for d to compare them to...
I was happy to see that the annual Fistful Of Euros Satin Pajamas awards were up--I'm always happy to be introduced to new European blogs I wouldn't otherwise see. I.
... and pretty much every other variant of videoblogging. The glorious thing that the internet gives us is precision; I can take interest in a particular point of a post.
Henry, I think, has the best take I've read on Jon Chait's netroots article. Chait's take is actually pretty good in many respects, but is also marred by his unwillingness to believe that people might disagree with the positions of Democratic centrists for substantive rather...
Lauren links to this argument about the "purging" of blogrolls by A-List bloggers. While I agree that there are plenty of good bloggers who get less traffic than (I think).