“I recently received an email from a professor who want to start a professional blog. ‘What advice would you give about having a blog?’ she asked. ‘Is there anything you wished you knew at the start? Anything you did and wished you hadn’t? What are the best ways to get out the word about the blog?’ …” (more)
[Larry Cebula, Northwest History, 6 November]
“The Guardian science blog ‘Notes & Theories: Dispatched From the Science Desk’ published a post by Sarah Kendrew this week disagreeing with statements made by physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw about whether or not it’s a good idea to blog about research before publishing …” (more)
[Brian Romans, Wired, 28 October]
“This blog is now nearly three and a half years old, and has attracted over a million hits. During that time I have published 1,802 posts, and readers have made 12,580 comments on these posts …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 27 October]
“Blogger and English instructor Lee Skallerup Bessette looks at the ways academics use blogging in their careers, and the benefits it can offer to students …” (more)
[Guardian Higher Education, 24 October]
“Blogging encourages wider participation and generates instant debates. It should be wholeheartedly embraced by early career researchers …” (more)
[Sarah-Louise Quinnell, Guardian Professional, 20 September]
“Approaching 10 years as a blogger, I’m asked why I blog. It’s a question that Doc Searls (at right) asked me when he visited Dublin in 2004. Back then, I read Doc religiously because he conversed online …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View from Ireland, 8 September]
“Lenny Cassuto defends comments made in our live chat on academic publishing and explains why he thinks print still trumps blogging for academics trying to establish themselves …” (more)
[Guardian Professional, 31 August]
My experience with blogging and academic papers suggests that the answer to this question is ‘yes, certainly’. Now, David McKenzie and Berk Özler at the World Bank Development Impact blog discuss a paper that they are working on that is seeking to quantify the impact of blogging onthe readership of economics papers …” (more)
[RT: Richard Tol]
[Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog, 10 August]
“… Looking back I think that we have received the best response to posts when we have dealt about these issues and how they affect us, or about how they affect the community at large. Young academics are often afraid to admit that they struggle with certain parts of their research or career because to do so might just be advertising to a prospective employer that you are not perfect. We are taught to loudly proclaim just how good we are and to project a false sense of confidence (in doing this though surely we make it more difficult for ourselves?) Posts about careers, the difficulty with publishing and getting a job always get a really positive response …” (more)
[Lisa Marie Griffith, Pue's Occurrences, 13 June]
“A lot of people emailed about the Geary blog and my general response has been that this current blog is a holding position until I can think of the best format for a new multiple contributor blog. I have been talking to people in the last few days about setting up a multiple contributor behavioural economics similar to the Geary blog but with a wider range of contributors and with a more EU-wide focus …” (more)
[Liam Delaney, 3 June]
“Tens of thousands of opinionated academics around the world have become internet bloggers while universities are increasingly establishing blogging sites on their web pages. Blogging has moved from being a nerdish undergraduate pastime to an accepted communication medium within the academic community …” (more)
[Geoff Maslen, University World News, 29 May]
“It’s a funny thing this, sitting down to reflect on a life with Pue’s. Being an historian, two years doesn’t really seem that long. But then we didn’t really know what to expect when we started out twenty-four months ago, scribbling ideas on a notepad, wondering what template and what colours to use, noting what we did and didn’t like in a website, and going through the arduous process of finding a suitable banner image …” (more)
[Kevin O’Sullivan, Pue's Occurrences, 23 May]
“If you can believe it – because we certainly can’t – it’s been nearly two years since the Pue’s Occurrences collective made its first contributions to the blogosphere. To celebrate, from today Pue’s is moving to a new – and simpler – address …” (more)
[Pue's Occurrences, 28 April]
“Every now and then I make the mistake of confessing to a colleague that I blog. They usually greet this confession with an uneasy smile and follow it with a look that says: ‘do you really have time for that?’ I understand what they really mean: a serious tenure track assistant professor does not have time for blogging. With respect to my colleagues, they’re wrong …” (more)
[HT: Catherine Cronin]
[Stephen T Casper, The Neuro Times, 26 April]
“The Geary Behavioural Economics blog closed today. I think it’s fashionable to say something like ‘well I only spend 30 seconds a day blogging so it doesn’t take much time’. I think I might have even fooled myself into a variant of that but even blogs like ours with mostly relatively short posts take nontrivial amounts of time to moderate and develop …” (more)
[Liam Delaney, 4 April]
Today (Monday 14 March) the total number of pageviews at 9th Level Ireland passed the quarter-of-a-million mark. The blog has been running since 25 August 2008.
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Top posts in 2011
Academic Freedom and Tenure: Necessary Rights for Irish Academics
All Too Clear? – IUA Statement of Clarification on the Croke Park agreement
Call for Academic Gathering To Defend Academic Freedom
NUIG Pres calls for ends of rag weeks after girls go on naked rampage
Personal Statement on the Employment Control Framework
Programme for Government 2011-2016 – implications for 3rd level education
Report on the Academic Gathering, from Paddy Healy
Students quizzed over Trinity ski trip chaos
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Most visited pages in 2011
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The Blogmeister
“Last Friday, 4 March 2011, Pue’s Occurrences held its second symposium on blogging. This time around our focus was blogging and web legitimacy …” (more)
[Lisa Marie Griffith, Pue's Occurrences, 9 March]
“The second symposium on academic blogging organised by the collective editors of Pue’s Occurrences took place on Friday last week in Trinity College. I was glad to attend the event, wearing so to speak the Ireland After NAMA hat for a day brim full of stimulating and diverse debates on the nature and challenges of blogging in the academic sphere …” (more)
[Cian O’ Callaghan, Ireland After NAMA, 8 March]
“… It is my intention that this blog will continue, but if it is to maintain a significant Irish higher education dimension (alongside the Scottish one that will now be developed) I shall require help. I am hoping that there may be a reader or two here who will be willing to assemble Irish stories and comment for the blog from April 2011 …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 26 February]
“If you’re plugged into the science blogtwitosphere, then you surely know that the topic of women science bloggers has been written about extensively. Rather than re-hash what many others have said, I’ll direct you to these posts by Kate Clancy and Daniel Lende …” (more)
[Jason G Goldman, The Thoughtful Animal, 28 January]
