Ninth Level Ireland

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

Factory Farms for the Mind

Hunt Report: draft available

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

Blogs and discussion

Case law

Managerialism

Overpayments

Provostial election

University rankings

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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]

“Last year Pue’s organised a one-day symposium on blogging with speakers from Come Here To Me, the Irish Left Archive, Ireland After NAMA, the Sligo Model Blog and History Compass Exchanges. We’ve decided to do it again this spring on 4 March in the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin …” (more)

[Pue's Occurrences, 26 January]

“On the occasion of my very first post on EJIL:Talk! – at the invitation of its editors – on the current duality of government in Côte d’Ivoire (see here), I have deemed it necessary to post a separate note on the ‘art’ of legal blogging …” (more)

[Jean d'Aspremont, EJIL, 6 January]

“A quick post on this frosty Monday morning to highlight the vitality of the wider blogging community that Pue’s forms part of …” (more)

[Kevin O’Sullivan, Pue’s Occurrences, 15 November]

“… Am I attacking straw men? Do I critique parodies of the University, not the modern realities. Perhaps, but then let’s get the straw men burned out so we can get into the meat and muscle. And remember, if you work in the space and actually read blogs and social media, you’re well ahead of many of your peers …” (more)

[Robert Cosgrave, Tertiary 21, 19 October]

“There are lots of Irish science blogs nowadays where you can keep up with what’s happening in the world of science and find out what issues people are discussing …” (more)

[Science.ie, 29 September]

“Given that I’ve had a few new bloggers start up with this website in the past few days, I decided to do a bit of background research and check out who and what’s on the Irish ‘blogosphere’, as it’s called, and to make sure that there was nothing about third level education that I might have been missing out on up to now …” (more)

[Daniel O'Carroll, Cork Student News, 14 September]

“Last Thursday I took part in the excellent ‘Blogging The Humanities’ symposium organised by Pue’s Occurrences, the Irish history blog. The event took place in the beautiful and historic TRIAC (Trinity Irish Art Research Centre) building at Trinity College Dublin, on a day one can only describe as the stuff of Bord Fáilte advertisements …” (more)

[Come here to me!, 8 June]

“Who says cyberspace is lonely? On behalf of Pue’s I want to thank all the bloggers and would-be bloggers who joined us for a day of discussion on the present and future of blogging in the humanities. It was great to put faces to blogs, to meet new people and generally talk about something a bit different …” (more)

[Juliana Adelman, Pue's Occurrences, 6 June]

“Yesterday I attended a symposium on academic blogging in Trinity College Dublin organised by the collective who produce Pue’s Occurrences. I was there to represent Ireland After NAMA (the other blogs represented are listed below). It was a very productive meeting and it was fascinating to listen to the experiences of other academic bloggers and the kinds of issues and challenges that they face through blogging …” (more)

[Rob Kitchin, Ireland after NAMA, 4 June]

“In order to discuss the past, present and future of the blog as a tool in the humanities, Pue’s Occurences has organised a one day symposium to be held from 10am to 5pm on 3 June 2010 in the Trinity Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC) at Trinity College Dublin …” (more)

[Ireland after NAMA, 10 May]

“Unsurprisingly the proliferation in blogs has lead to many of them morphing into paperback form. So far we have had Stuff White People Like, Animal Review, and Postcards from Yo Momma among many. The last is probably most obviously amenable to the process of ‘bookization’ being a kind of record of correspondence, however flippant the title. Mutation between literary forms is of course nothing new …” (more)

[Juliana Adelman, Pue’s Occurrences, 25 February]

“I’ve noticed that some of my favorite higher ed bloggers haven’t been what you would call prolific lately. This is not so uncommon, especially around this time of year. There’s something about the winter that tends to make even the best bloggers spend some time in hibernation …” (more)

[Higher Ed Marketing, 23 February]

“Blogging is dead. Again. That’s right, at least once a year the techno-hipsters weigh in with their thoughts and declare that the blog – be it personal, corporate or new media – is an ex-parrot and has ceased to be. This time they’re saying that social networking sites are winning the battle and that Twitter is the nail in the coffin …” (more)

[Marie Boran, Silicon Republic, 4 February]

“It all began innocently enough: just before Christmas, Sunday Times journalist John Burns wrote a piece lamenting the shortcomings of blogging in Ireland. Leading bloggers naturally begged to differ. A month later, the spat was picked up by Trevor Butterworth writing on Forbes.com, who noted that ‘it’s hard to think of a free country more suited to blogging than Ireland’. By the same token, it’s at least as hard to think of a country more given to litigation …” (more)

[Eoin O'Dell, Cearta, 3 February]

“It’s hard to think of a free country more suited to blogging than Ireland: As an expat, I can testify only to the solemn, universal truth that my fellow countrymen and women defer to no one in their pursuit of loquacity, nor accede to any discrimination – or punctilio – that might keep the ludicrous and the lunatic safely from public view …” (more)

[HT: Philip Lane]
[Trevor Butterworth, Forbes, 27 January]