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September 27, 2007

What Are Your Favorite Academic Blogs?

Have you read a really insightful blog post recently that you think might be of interest to Footnoted? Have you written one? Let us know.

We are always looking to expand our blog horizons. Please send tips and links to footnoted@chronicle.com

Or use the comments section below to share your favorite academic blogs — especially if you think they might be hidden gems.

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1. Crooked Timber – http://www.crookedtimber.org/

   The Duck of Minerva – http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com

   OrgTheory – http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/

   Total Drek – http://totaldrek.blogspot.com/

   — grad_student    Sep 27, 11:29 AM    #

2. Security Dilemmas – securitydilemmas.blogspot.com

   — IR Guy    Sep 27, 01:57 PM    #

3. The College Puzzle (Mike Kirst): http://thecollegepuzzle.blogspot.com/

   — Daphne Borromeo    Sep 27, 03:32 PM    #

4. University Diaries – http://www.margaretsoltan.com/

   — Parker    Sep 27, 03:34 PM    #

5. Tame the Web: Libraries & Technology
   http://www.tametheweb.com/

   — M Jackson    Sep 27, 03:46 PM    #

6. An Image to Decipher the World?
   Where geography, history and the cosmos converge.
   http://veritasliberabit.blogspot.com/

   — luisosio    Sep 27, 04:08 PM    #

7. Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities

   The World is Like a Stage, but the Play is Badly Cast.

   http://disembedded.wordpress.com/

   — Patrick Zimmerman    Sep 27, 07:22 PM    #

8. The commentaries on movies alone make this blog worth it:

   http://gracchii.blogspot.com/

   — ashok    Sep 28, 10:48 AM    #

9. For me, “academic blogs” isn’t a specific enough category. Would you ask someone to recommend “academic books”?

   I read lots of academic blogs, many in my own field of film-TV-media studies. I recommend:

   http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog

   http://www.henryjenkins.org/

   http://www.chutry.wordherders.net/wp

   http://justtv.wordpress.com

   http://zigzigger.blogspot.com

   (the last is my own)

   I also love the linguistics blog Language Log, even though I’m not a linguist:

   http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/index.rdf

   There are so many blogs about the life of the academic, and one in particular that I admire is Slaves of Academe:

   http://slavesofacademe.blogspot.com/

   I disagree with her a lot, but I never miss a post by Ann Althouse, a law professor who writes about way more than the law, and with wit, precision, and astounding frequency:
   http://althouse.blogspot.com/

   Finally, there are blogs by academics about things extra-curricular. Here’s a brilliant blog about food by a pseudonymous English lit prof:
   http://thegurglingcod.typepad.com/thegurglingcod/

   — Michael Newman    Sep 29, 10:23 PM    #

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