Comments on: Episode 10 – Risky Business? Blogs on Campus, Part I

By: Beware academic squirrels! « cyberloom

Beware academic squirrels! « cyberloom — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:12:57 +0000

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By: Blogging for Beginners « Eliza08’s Weblog

Blogging for Beginners « Eliza08’s Weblog — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:16:18 +0000

[...] Centre for History and New Media ) has good coverage of these issues with well-chosen links in its Risky Business 1 blog/podcast, and Risky Business [...]

By: Joe Blogger

Joe Blogger — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:14:59 +0000

It really depends on what you are blogging about, and what the purpose of your blog is.

A (we)blog is meant to be personal, but at the same time available to others. If you have something to write, then you post, if you don’t, then you don’t post. If your blog has too much junk in it, people won’t subscribe to it, if it is too irregular, they may unsubscribe.

If indiscriminant readership/authority is what you are after, you need to spend more time and effort on your blog. If however you are trying to publish thoughts, ideas, comments on certain academic topics you come across, and gain a more select crowd of readers, then set a goal and publicize it on your blog (just like you do with the podcast) – Just say – new posts every xx days/weeks, so readers don’t get caught off guard when there is no new post in 2 weeks.

By: Mark Sample

Mark Sample — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:34:04 +0000

Great podcast. There’s so much to be said about the benefits and hazards of being an academic blogger (or is it a blogging academic?). I seem to be breaking most of the rules you lay out here (I don’t stick to one subject, I blog irregularly, and I’ve got a blasted tag cloud on my front page). If I get the time, I’ll parse out some of these thoughts on my own blog.

I can’t remember who said it in the podcast, but I agree that the iPhone, for now, is not a “game changer” on GMU’s campus. I doubt many students have plunked down the cash. I’m sure we’ll discover that the students are all text messaging in the middle of class on their regular old cell phones.

It’ll be interesting to contrast GMU with my wife’s college (Davidson College), where they have explicit directions on configuring the iPhone to work with the campus wifi network.