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UD is...
"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
"Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious."
(Rate Your Students)
"I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere,
except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer,
and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her
politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?"
(Tenured Radical)

Monday, August 06, 2007

UD NON-TEDIOUS



UD's thrilled to wake up this morning to an immense compliment directed at herself from the fun Rate Your Students website.

Readers were asked to list their favorite academic blogs, among which UD was already happy to see University Diaries. But the site featured a comment from "one of our favorite correspondents" which made UD even happier.


'Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious. Consider the source. These are the people you purposely avoid in the hallway.

I know, let's burn five minutes catching up on how you sipped boxed wine and tweaked your PowerPoint presentation over the weekend or how the proles in duplicating reversed pages three and four on your course syllabus.

"Oh, lookie here! I found my favorite pen, maybe I can get back to work on that darn dissertation ... maybe I'll just post another picture of my 18-year-old cat, Mr. Scabies."'
Posted at: 8/06/2007 09:34:00 AM