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Monday, September 05, 2005
SO THERE More tribbling from the still-pseudonymous Ivan Tribble, on why tenure-track job seekers shouldn’t blog, in the Chronicle of Higher Education . Tribble Two responds to the many critics of the original piece, most of whom felt that he/she didn’t understand what serious academic blogs were, and that the effect of the piece was to scare academics off of a reasonable and often valuable writerly, social, pedagogical, and scholarly activity. Tribble acknowledges that the critics are right, and in so doing gives us a window into the mental world of some academics: As my original column made clear (and many amid the outcry reiterated) when it comes to blogging, I just don't "get it." That's right, I don't. Many in the tenured generation don't, and they'll be sitting on hiring committees for years to come. If that's bad news, I'm sorry. When I originally read this, I found myself instantly translating it into language I used to hear from my mother when I was sixteen or so and interested in doing or reading something she found inexplicable and offensive: “That right! I just don’t get it! And I don’t intend to get it. I only know that I don’t like it. Too bad for you that you still live in my house. If that’s bad news, sorry.” [For UD's earlier commentary on this, go here and here.] |