Category Archives for Blogging
Blogs referenced in the second edition of my book “Blogging”
The second edition of my book Blogging is just about to go into production, and I’ve just finished double checking all the links for the blogs referenced in the book. I’m using a lot of the same blogs as in … Continue reading
Norway’s academic hiring processes are already remarkably open
A few years ago, Kate and Gregor Maxwell, a British academic couple now working at Norwegian universities, started applying for academic jobs in Scandinavia. The openness of the system surprised them, as Kate blogged earlier this week: It was a … Continue reading
Norsk blogghistorie
[This Norwegian post is about early blogging history in Norway. English posting will resume shortly!] Kristian Bjørkelo redigerer en antologi med arbeidstittelen Bloggnoreg, som kommer ut på Humanist forlag om noen måneder, og jeg har fått i oppdrag å skrive … Continue reading
Taina Bucher on social media and “programmed friendships”
Poking around the internet, as one does, I came across Taina Bucher’s MA level class MEVIT4610 Social Media at the University of Oslo. Taina got in touch with me several months ago asking about things like how to integrate blogging … Continue reading
Blogs use the word “love” more than any other
I’m not sure if the title is completely true, but I do love this map Media Cloud made of the 1000 top US blogs (according to Technorati in early 2011) showing that “the biggest single cluster with 137 blogs is … Continue reading
How many people blog?
David Brake added some great links to my Quora question the other day about how great a proportion of the population actually write or read blogs. There are interesting Chinese statistics, but I’m not sure what they mean by “blogs and … Continue reading
People are searching for “Tumblr” more than for “blog”
I guess Quora is another site that could eat up writing that previously would have gone on my blog. But writing prompts can be useful sometimes. When I saw this question, of course I answered: What are the consequences of Tumblr … Continue reading
Which surveys answer how large a proportion of the whole population blogs?
Maybe I’m starting to get the point of Quora. I’ve been a member there for ages, of course, but I just followed a few topics and people and forgot about it. It looks as though most of my friends who … Continue reading
Sex, ekstremisme og mediesirkus
“[This is about a local extremist anti-feminist blogger who was recently jailed for threatening to murder police officers. I’ve been invited to participate in a radio debate on the media coverage this afternoon, so in the following I try to … Continue reading
Revising “Blogging”: blogs and journalism
I’ve been ploughing through my book, Blogging, figuring out what needs revising for the second edition. Lots is still good, but some is outdated – like the lengthy explanations of what Facebook is. Not necessary in 2012… So far the … Continue reading