Weblogs in Higher Education

Focus on craft

There's a kind of blog that focuses on the craft of something -- the book design blogs I mentioned recently, the chess and wine blogs I've looked at from time to time. These tend to give away good information, invite exchange, as other blogs do, but they have the additional trait of having...

Book design blogs

I'm a big fan of the blog and regular email updates from the Book Design Review, the work of Joseph Sullivan. Today's email / blog entry, for example, introduces a striking cover design by David Drummond and links to the designer's blog, with the...

Follow-up from Jay Rosen

The other day I summarized an old posting by Jay Rosen in which he describes his own practice as a blogger. He was kind enough to email and clarify something I might have given the wrong impression about: he was not seeking to impose an approach to blogging on others. Intead, he was reporting his own method, created over time to serve his own purposes as a writer. For example, he pointed...

Formalist challenge of Twitter

Now I find I'm approaching Twitter like a formalist poet who likes to have the imagination provoked by the restrictions of a given form. You only get 17 syllables, or the next line must rhyme, or there must be a recognizable rhythm, etc. As you face the restriction, you see novel solutions, things you wouldn't have said, or said that way, otherwise. Two tries: Quoted: "People congratulated me when my son was born, but I worried even then. He will be drafted in 8 years....

Twitter-free zone
I noticed that I never got Twitter to make sense -- never felt the energy. Now this not-in-the-spirit-of-things thought: Twitter would make a handy To Do list. Now that's rather anti-social of me. I'll keep trying.