Keywords: content, choice, special, and snowflake.
"...a few times the occasion has arisen in which someone figures out who I am and then I have to think back to whether/what I might have written about them. So far, this has not been a problem. To date, the benefits of being semi-anonymous have outweighed the negative aspects, but at some point (maybe now), a threshold may be reached when being semi-anonymous to an ever increasing group of people makes writing more complicated." - http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2009/03/voice-change.html
Observations:
1. Blogging is voluntary, not compulsory - however compelling those "sign up for an account and start blogging today!" notices may be. (See earlier entries here on that most tragically self-deluded of C21st careerists, the "professional blogger". Note: Those entries may be tagged "mythical creatures".)
2. An inverse ratio of "earnestness" operates in the blogosphere: The more seriously a blogger regards his or her own blog, the less seriously it is liable to be taken by the general readership. (See also: Oozlum bird causal dynamics.)
3. Pushing the shadow frequently undermines the substance.
4. A response pattern to entries best summarised as "Applaud/wince/applaud/wince" is not uncommon in the academic blogosphere.
5. Sorry, you must excuse me - I've got Dr. Eric "Supercool" Melonekopf on the other line...
Update 10/03/2009: Uh-oh...
http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2009/03/boomer-blogger.html
Safety in numbers?
I think that might've been tried before.
Observations:
1. Blogging is voluntary, not compulsory - however compelling those "sign up for an account and start blogging today!" notices may be. (See earlier entries here on that most tragically self-deluded of C21st careerists, the "professional blogger". Note: Those entries may be tagged "mythical creatures".)
2. An inverse ratio of "earnestness" operates in the blogosphere: The more seriously a blogger regards his or her own blog, the less seriously it is liable to be taken by the general readership. (See also: Oozlum bird causal dynamics.)
3. Pushing the shadow frequently undermines the substance.
4. A response pattern to entries best summarised as "Applaud/wince/applaud/wince" is not uncommon in the academic blogosphere.
5. Sorry, you must excuse me - I've got Dr. Eric "Supercool" Melonekopf on the other line...
Update 10/03/2009: Uh-oh...
http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2009/03/boomer-blogger.html
Safety in numbers?
I think that might've been tried before.