Today I talk about the notion of the ‘publicly articulated career’ blogger (or the ‘resume blogger’).
Also, check these links out:
http://homecookedtheory.com/
http://snurb.info/
http://jilltxt.net/
Also check out Danah Boyd’s blog: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
And also her somewhat ironic paper: Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networking.
...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary
Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.
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Hey Craig,
bloody interesting site.
Even though I got my back up at you at homecookedtheory – I now see where you are coming from.
that said, rather than the sites you list being simply being about career or resume articulation such blogging, rather, offers up the opportunity to access software that enables me, who you might claim to be a ‘resume blogger’, to keep track of my own projects and interesting research I find etc. no matter where I am. It’s cheap also, which helps too. Also, accessibility and networking with others in my very small circle are other reasons/benefits. the reality is that sfa people visit such blogs, i think you will find many such bloggers find the software a really useful tool rather than the blogs being about making a difference per se.
Thanks very much for your comments Clif. I agree, academic blogs are useful within academic circles, however there are other audiences to consider and this is where we could perhaps do more.
Craig: a few objections here. You talk about the tedium and the self-serving character of other people’s blogs, but your own video has all the structure and grace of a pub rant. You criticise other people’s work, publicly, without any clear basis except a vaguely expressed sense that these people’s publicly expressed positions are politically timid. In relation to what? Your own politics? If so, isn’t your responsibility to argue those political positions up front rather than go after other bloggers? Where does this get you, or the rest of us? Who died and made you arbiter of acceptable levels of political content and activism in blogs? All of your examples of ‘bad practice’ are places where I’ve gleaned useful information, been led into stimulating conversation (not just with the bloggers themselves) and felt people to be dealing with issues of relevance beyond the narrow confines of academia (wherever that line is drawn????). If you think thses people’s work is substandard or pernicious, as you more or less imply, it ought to be based on a little more than hazy assertion.
thanks for your comments Jason. my ideas aren’t that original and i applied them from Danah Boyd. It’s a legitimate criticism and i stand by it. ‘the publicly articulated career blogger’; it’s hardly a ground breaking criticism and if it wasn’t true, then i wouldn’t have said it (plus I am sensitive in its application ).
i may rework the idea some more. and ‘pub rant’; well you will find that a good deal of Australian democracy was conceived in hotels…the 8 hour movement etc. pubs are a political space, just like blogs
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[...] This guy on Youtube is really swithched on. I like him a lot. It’s good to see people doing this stuff (and check out the ‘ratings’). Let’s hope that he doesn’t grow up to become a facile ‘resume blogger’ like many in the academy (see previous video diary entry). [...]