More Thoughts on Academic Blogging
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More Thoughts on Academic Blogging


2 interesting articles over at InsideHigherEd.com.

Pro-blogging
Anti-blogging

They seem, in many ways, intensely personal reflections on the place of blogging in their lives, yet they still have some interesting things to say. Note, however, that both are still grad students. I wonder how those articles would've been written by different levels of faculty -- adjunct, pre-tenure, tenured, etc.




- Literature Compass Special Issue On "e-medieval"
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- Past Discussed Quarterly
Now, this project sounds interesting. An online journal whose purpose is to help bridge blogging and academia, and devoted primarily to the pre-modern world. CFP up now = "Pseudo-histories" (although any post on a pre-Renaissance topic is welcome at...

- Time To Put The Feet Up For 2014
Time to put the feet up until another year. I like to take December off from blogging, so until January 2015, may you find many new books to read over the festive/holiday season. kind regards to you all, - Medieval Mayhem ...



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