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Category Archives: Academic Blogging

On “The Renascence of the Writer”

08-Mar-07

Walt Crawford has an interesting article in the latest edition of Econtent:
 
Crawford, W. (2007). The Renascence of the Writer. Econtent, 30(2), 44. Retrieved March 8, 2007, from [Ebscohost] or [WorldCat].
One thesis that I’m working on here is that there is a nascent category of blogging which I’m thinking of as “academic blogging” which can [...]

Yahoo Pipes

21-Feb-07

I’ve been messing around with Yahoo Pipes, and love the concept even though the implementation is a bit clunky. Fascinating project though, and I’m excited for how this will grow. Although I’m not sure about the name, reminds me a little bit about Ted Steven’s Internet Tubes. …
Here’s a pipe that I’ve set up in [...]

Waiting for Zotero

26-Sep-06

Found via Lorcan Dempsey’s blog, I’m looking forward to Zotero’s public beta, supposedly this Fall ‘06. The main problem with any type of academic blogging is the ability to cite articles (like I did with the above blog) even though the link target may be behind a pay firewall of some kind. It stands to [...]