Fred Sanders: Why Professors Blog
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Fred Sanders:
It’s easy enough to find horror stories of professors “fired for blogging” (just google the phrase), or job applicants who suspect their strong online opinions have rendered them less than hireable. But what I wanted was evidence that somebody had been hired for blogging, or promoted for it, or that professors were using new media activity to make progress on their professorial goals. Instead of just brainstorming about my own reasons, I interviewed a handful of my favorite academic bloggers in my own field, Bible and theology. Here are some of the most helpful remarks from Michael Bird, Scot McKnight, Andreas Köstenberger, and Peter Leithart.Read the whole thing.
posted by JT at Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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FWIW, my wife was afraid I wouldn't find work this last job search because if they googled be they'd find Dave Armstromg's "critiques" of me -- or worse, they'd find TeamPyro, which as we all know would be the end of the world.
Needless to say, I am employed -- though probably not because of my outstanding blogging. But it never came up.
A small complaint. I read your blog on RSS and sometimes at your site. However, for us RSS readers the new ad at the bottom of each post dominates the screen and calls attention away from the post. Good if you want us to see the ad, but so distracting that I now skip over the posts. I wonder if other readers have had the same experience.
Fran
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