Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
February 23rd, 2009 at 4:53PM
If you don’t quite mind my saying, I don’t know if maybe you couldn’t perhaps suggest that it seems as if it might not lack a certain je ne sais quoi, no?
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:34PM
You know someone is putting up the entire content of your blog up on another site called "Study & Money" and then selling advertisements.
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:58PM
Yeah, I guess I knew, Jonathan. I’ll ask my webmistress whether I should be annoyed.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:14PM
Jonathan: My webmistress is now working on the problem.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:55PM
i have problems like that – please could you let me know what your people come up with to resolve it?
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:57PM
Sure. She’s not sure what she’ll be able to do, but she’s working hard on it. I’ll let you know.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:00PM
Ezra Merkin of Yeshiva fame is Daphne’s brother (didn’t Dornford Yates write a novel called "The Brother of Daphne"?)? Small small world.
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:30PM
> You know someone is putting up the entire content of your blog up on another site called "Study & Money" and then selling advertisements.
For people who may be interested, these are called scrapers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scraper_site
They’re completely automated, so no human is actually looking at the page and cutting and pasting. They are created to attract random web traffic in the hope of making money via advertising, or alternatively to set up a web of links (a "link farm") that all point to another site, thereby elevating that site’s ranking in Google and other search engines. It’s best to delete their automated comments — "comment spam" — either manually or through a blacklist (depending on your software). If their site displays Google ads you can report it to Google as a spam site and that will eventually get their advertising account deleted. As for copying all of your own content, there’s not a lot you can do unless you want to file copyright claims, and finding an actual person behind the scraper can be hard. But fortunately these sites generally last only a few months (after which others pop up to take their place).
Every ecosystem has not only producers but also parasites (blog scrapers, football coaches, etc.).
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:43PM
Many thanks for that information, RJO, which I will send to my webmistress.