[Yulpub] Academic blog lists

[Suzanne Lorimer]

In case you haven't seen this (from today's Wired Campus):

<http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=1739>A Directory of Academic 
Blogs, Wiki Style

How many academic blogs are there? Too many for any one person to keep 
track of. The popular academic blog <http://www.crookedtimber.org/>Crooked 
Timber has long maintained a 
<http://crookedtimber.org/academic-blogs/>lengthy list of academic blogs. 
The list had been maintained in part by Henry Farrell, an assistant 
professor of political science and international affairs at George 
Washington University, but the task was starting to seem overwhelming. "I'd 
come to the conclusion that one person just couldn't keep track of this 
anymore," he said in an interview this week. So why not open up the list 
and let anyone add to it? That's just what the gang at Crooked Timber 
decided to do, using the same wiki software behind Wikipedia. The result is 
<http://academicblogs.org>academicblogs.org, which went online in 
September. Mr. Farrell said he doesn't know how many blogs are now listed 
in the ever-growing collection because he hasn't had time to count. We 
started to attempt a count ourselves, but we only made it through the first 
category: humanities. There are about 470 of those. The list is in no way a 
seal of approval, Mr. Farrell said, adding that he personally disagrees 
with many of the views expressed in blogs on the list. "The only policing 
is to make sure that anybody who's there is an academic," he said. There 
are other directories of academic blogs, such as 
<http://www.blogscholar.com/>BlogScholar. Do others out there know of other 
guides to the academic blogosphere worth checking out?--Jeffrey R. Young

-Sue


Suzanne Lorimer
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