Richard is starting another Go-Meme, and I'm just getting around to it. If you're an actual or aspiring academic, feel free to join in.
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Overview:
The following survey is for bloggers who are actual or aspiring academics (thus including students). It takes the form of a go-meme to provide bloggers a strong incentive to join in: the 'Link List' means that you will receive links from all those who pick up the survey 'downstream' from you. The aim is to create open-source data about academic blogs that is publicly available for further analysis. Analysts can find the data by searching for the tracking identifier-code: "acb109m3m3". Further details, and eventual updates with results, can be found on the original posting:
http://pixnaps.blogspot.com/2005/09/academic-blog-survey.html
Instructions:
Simply copy and paste this post to your own blog, replacing my survey answers with your own, as appropriate, and adding your blog to the Link List.
Important (1) Your post must include the four sections: Overview, Instructions, Link List, and Survey. (2) Remember to link to every blog in the Link List. (3) For tracking purposes, your post must include the following code: acb109m3m3
Link List (or 'extended hat-tip'):
1. Philosophy, et cetera
2. Siris
Survey:
Demographics
Age - 27
Gender - Male
Location - Toronto, Ontario
Religion - Christian
Began blogging - June 2004
Academic field - Philosophy
Academic position [tenured?] - graduate student [and thus obviously not]
Approximate blog stats
Rate of posting - almost daily
Average no. hits - 120/day
Average no. comments - scattered
Blog content - 90% academic, 0% political, 10% personal.
Other Questions
1) Do you blog under your real name? Why / why not?
- Yes. It never really occurred to me to use a pseudonym; in part, because this weblog began as an online notebook. And since I typically just post on issues related to my intellectual interests, there hasn't been any reason since to hide.
2) Do colleagues or others in your department know that you blog? If so, has anyone reacted positively or negatively?
- Yes. I don't really talk about it much.
3) Are you on the job market?
- Yes.
4) Do you mention your blog on your CV or other job application material?
- No; I'm fiercely opposed to padding my CV, and putting Siris on it would seem too much like padding -- the ideas here are just not in finished form. I do have another blog, Houyhnhnm Land, which is on my CV, but only because I use it to organize my CV, etc. online.
5) Has your blog been mentioned at all in interviews, tenure reviews, etc.? If so, provide details.
- It came up once in a convention interview, in a question about my hobbies.
6) Why do you blog?
- Mostly as a convenient means of getting thoughts down, and having an easily accessible set of links to online resources.
