tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post114415681459383872..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: ye olde days of the internetCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144252076746110682006-04-05T11:47:00.000-04:002006-04-05T11:47:00.000-04:00I'm happy you find the blog interesting. It's an e...I'm happy you find the blog interesting. It's an experiment, and an enjoyable one so far.<BR/><BR/>"Few can take such professional risk": I understand that sentiment completely, and wholly understand why so many bloggers (esp. those who are grad students and assistant profs.) remain anonymous. <BR/><BR/>Still, there are risks that are worth taking, even while hedging your bets -- that's why I knew when I was an assistant prof. that any electronic publishing and internet oriented scholarship had also better been backed up with print versions and lots of traditional venues.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1144161033371780252006-04-04T10:30:00.000-04:002006-04-04T10:30:00.000-04:00for me, the joy of reading blogs stems from their ...for me, the joy of reading blogs stems from their voicing of other aspects of our scholarly lives that are less than easy to own: debt, dating, teaching failures, pervasive racism and sexism, working class alienation, and the soul crushing burden of bleak cynicism (to name just a few fun topics!). Blogs are an outlet for these types of expressions about the frustrations of scholarly communities, raising the stakes of "professional" identity. (That's why I find this blog so charming. You post about theory and you post about the pictures you and your brother took in Ireland!). Few can take such professional risk. (For example, it took me awhile to become comfortable with signing my name to my responses here!).<BR/><BR/>I keep hoping for more engaging discussions on listservs, but if the women's studies list is any guide, there seem to be a few people who respond a lot and a lot of folks like me who just read silently. And, how to put this... well, responding to the listserv seems to generate weird misreadings rather than productive discussions. But, perhaps that's just the peculiarities of the listservs I'm on (REED, working class listsrv, hnet new jersey, and the wmstlstrv).<BR/><BR/>(Though, the women's studies listserv broke the britney spears pro life monument story faster than cnn!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com