Sunday, November 20, 2005

To blog or not to blog... That is the question summed up in Robert S. Boynton's article, "Attack of the Career-Killing Blogs -- When academics post online, do they risk their jobs?" I can't help noticing the footnote: "Robert S. Boynton is the author of The New New Journalism. He teaches magazine journalism at New York University, where he is up for tenure. He does not have a blog." If I become (or have become) scarce around this page, it's not fear of academic scorn. Any current "not-blogging" is due to another reality of academic life: Bushels of papers to grade. One loosely-related thing that I'm not going to do until the grading is done... is to read Eli Noam's "A First Amendment for the Internet" in the Financial Times. I'm also fighting the temptation of the colorful CD-ROM labels of the Report on the World Summit on the Information Society. A quick visit to its page also uncovered an impressive variety of RSS feeds offereed by the International Telecommunications Union, feeds that I also pledge to not read in a big hurry. I'm not even listening to the radio as much as usual, but then I can always catch up using NPR's "Most e-mailed stories" page and podcast, as well as the local WUOT podcast. Before I get to do any of that other fun stuff, I may wander to the Office of Information Technologies' webcast archives... including videos from the Baker Center... I'll be there checking up on news writing students with "speech stories" for me to grade. (It used to be harder to tell whether they were quoting someone accurately!) 6:37:34 PM    comment []

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