Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog. History News Network. Why does HNN feature blogs? Aren't they just vehicles for people who want to sound off? The challenge of writing a blog is particularly great given the pressure to keep it up to date. But doing a blog is not fundamentally different from writing articles that appear in other places on HNN. In both cases the pressure to publish something in a timely manner necessitates foregoing the slow and steady approach common in peer-reviewed journals. By the peer review standard, none of the articles we publish pass muster as none of them are peer-reviewed in advance; the peer reviewing comes after they have already reached the public. But if that standard is the only standard, then historians must retreat from the journalistic fields and leave the harvesting of interesting views and opinions to others. This does not sound like a reasonable approach to us.
HNN is committed to the scholarly discussion of issues in a timely manner. Christopher Corbett - 10/14/2003 "WANTED. *I was just taped by C-Span. Where does academic blogging lead? Questioning the Academic Blog. Challenging the Presentation Paradigm: Publishing Scholarly Presentations. [This is a guest post by Amanda French (@amandafrench), THATCamp Coordinator at George Mason University's Center for History and New Media. You can read more about her (and by her) at AmandaFrench.net.] For my day job, I support and promote a well-known unconference at which presentations with or without slides are frankly not allowed. At THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) sessions involve group discussion or group work, period, fini: We’re not here to read or be read to, as Tom Scheinfeldt notably wrote in his “THATCamp Ground Rules.” Nevertheless, I’m by no means anti-presentation. Presentations have their place, and I personally enjoy listening to a good lecture. Even at THATCamp, we make an exception to the no-presentations rule for instructors in the technology skills workshops called BootCamp, though we also ask that instructors then do in-class exercises with BootCamp students.
Or of course when, you know, they suck. Write your talk Use slides as visual aids Return to Top. Professors, Start Your Blogs. With a new school year about to begin, I want to reach out to other professors (and professors-to-be, i.e., graduate students) to try to convince more of them to start their own blogs. It’s the perfect time to start a blog, and many of the reasons academics state for not having a blog are, I believe, either red herrings or just plain false.
So first, let me counter some biases and concerns I hear from a lot of my peers (and others in the ivory tower) when the word “blog” is mentioned. Despite the fact that tens of millions of people now have blogs, the genre is still considered by many—especially those in academia—to be the realm of self-involved, insecure, oversexed teens and twentysomethings. To be sure, there are plenty of blogs that trace the histrionics of adolescence and its long, tortured aftermath. And there’s no denying that other blogs cover such fascinating, navel-gazing topics as one man’s love of his breakfast (preferably eggs Benedict, if you must know). Leave the Blogging to Us. Professors, Start Your Blogs. Blogging scientifique : la critique argumentée. Blogging scientifique : la critique argumentée.