“I blog, but am I wasting my time and is it a beneficial tool?? How many teachers blog regularly? Although more teachers appear to blog in the last few years I feel that it may be a tool which is used by a devoted few and restricted to pockets of teachers in certain areas or schools …” (more)
[5j2012MsGovern, 22 May]
“Last year I delivered a couple of research papers on the history of crime. The first was in October at the Institute of Historical Research or the IHR as it’s known, here in London. The second was in January, on a beach in Belize. I thought I’d talk a little bit today about how those two experiences were different …” (more)
[Adam Crymble, Thoughts on Public & Digital History, 18 May]
“Well that day has finally arrived. After 3.5 years and 2,700 blogposts, this is the final NAMA wine lake blogpost. I truly regret that I can’t continue something that has become more than full-time and has stopped me leading anything like a normal life …” (more)
[NAMA Wine Lake, 19 May]
“Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, but he’s known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where he maintains a running list of open-access journals and publishers he deems questionable or predatory …” (more)
[Jake New, Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 May]
“The replicability and methodology of a paper published in a high-impact journal has prompted further discussion regarding scientific discourse and responsibility. Dorothy Bishop argues the journal editors should have done more to ensure the veracity of the findings before it was published …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 15 April]
“The shock, horror and plain sexist abuse that greeted the revelation that the talent and brains behind one of the world’s most popular science websites were those of a woman prompted Elise Andrew to wonder whether she had suddenly travelled back to the Dark Ages …” (more)
[Paul Gallagher, Independent, 31 March]
“… On Wednesday, the author of the popular science blog I Fucking Love Science posted a link to her Twitter account. And her Twitter account features her name (Elise Andrew) and her photograph. To many of the fans of the blog (which has 4.2m ‘likes’ on Facebook), this was the first time that its author had been identified, and many expressed shock …” (more)
[Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 22 March]
“Structural biologist Stephen Curry reveals how plugging himself into the public domain has added new perspectives to his research and teaching …” (more)
[Imperial College London, 17 March]
“Google announced last night that it will be shutting down its RSS feed, Google Reader, in a couple of months. It was an unpopular decision …” (more)
[Martha Gill, New Statesman, 14 March]
“I recently returned from ScienceOnline, a meeting for journalists, scientists, artists, teachers, and others who discuss (and do!) science on the internet. This was my second time at the conference and, like last year, I came home with a mind full of ideas about effective outreach, open science, and teaching innovations …” (more)
[Jacquelyn Gill, The Contemplative Mammoth, 8 February]
“How do you feel about academic blogging? If you are reading this then, chances are, you feel reasonably well inclined towards it. However if you are an academic blogger then you will undoubtedly be aware that many people are not so well inclined. This raises an obvious question: why? …” (more)
[Mark Carrigan, Impact of Social Sciences, 4 February]
“Alex Marsh thinks of himself as a blogger who is an academic, rather than an ‘academic blogger’. He finds that though there is significant overlap, these two identities are not entirely congruent …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 28 January]
“I wanted to mark a year of blogging by encouraging other academics (particularly outside the US) to do the same. So lets use my experience to tackle some of the worries that may be holding others back …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 14 January]
“I always like to do a post on Christmas Day, which I am not sure is entirely to my credit. I mean it’s nice to extend Christmas wishes etc, but I suspect that I am also trying to prove to you that I am still awake and blogging (your faithful blogging don never stops, as it were) …” (more)
[Mary Beard, A Don's Life, 25 December]
“Can social media help to bring women out of the shadows of academia? Women shouldn’t be afraid of blogging or self-promotion, writes Athene Donald, who finds that the mentoring support offered in the academic blogosphere can help researchers at any level stamp out their fears …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 21 November]
“Adrian Lurssen’s recent piece, ‘Are We Heading to a Post-Blogging World?’, made waves last month, and I’ve been mulling it over ever since. In short, Adrian discusses the growing trend of writers foregoing their own blogs to publish under branded media platforms such as the Huffington Post …” (more)
[Steven Matthews, Slaw, 1 November]
“Although I want to preface this with my usual warnings about too much meta, I did speak to the Times Higher Education this week for a piece they were doing on blogging …” (more)
[Martin Paul Eve, 1 November]
“The bloggers in this section write about university communications and marketing, but also ways in which academic professionals can talk with each other …” (more)
[Guardian, 5 October]
This blog went live on 24 August 2008. Over the next 4 years (first as 9thlevelireland. wordpress.com, then as 9thlevel.ie) there have been 552,524 pageviews.
Based on traffic this year, readership is 74% Irish (8% UK, 6% US, 2% German, 1% Australian). There have been 96,803 visits in 2012 (by 46,418 unique visitors). 27% of visits are through mobile devices.
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“Online is a university of the mind. For every newspaper article or research paper that appears in printed form, there are many more articles, debates and comments on the internet …” (more)
[David Kernohan, Guardian Professional, 23 August]
