"Can Blogging Derail Your Career?" (The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education)

“Can Blogging Derail Your Career?” The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 28 2006

Speculations on the possible causes to Juan Cole, currently Professor of modern Middle East and South Asian History at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, lost his position at Yale was in Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Despite with recommendation of two departments to hire him, he was finally turned down for appointment. Does blog help or ruin career of an academic? The issue was discussed by 7 bloggers including Siva Vaidhyanathan, Glenn Reynolds, Daniel Drezner, Ann Althouse, J. Bradford DeLong, Michael Berube and Erin O’Connor.

Quite a good background reading for those academics who would like to move further from surfing to blogging.

Related Websites:
Juan Cole’s Informed comment : http://www.juancole.com/
Siva Vaidhyanathan, New York University, http://www.sivacracy.net
Glenn Reynolds, University of Tennessee, http://www.instapundit.com
Daniel W. Drezner, University of Chicago : http://www.danieldrezner.com/
J. Bradfort DeLong, University of California at Berkeley, http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/
Ann Althouse, University of Wisconsin, http://www.althouse.blogspot.com
Michael Berube, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, http://www.michaelberube.com
Erin O’Connor, University of Pennsylvania, http://www.erinoconnor.org