Laura at Geeky Mom sent this list of the "Top 100 Liberal Arts Bloggers" to the faculty at her college with a note that it makes good beach reading. She’s rather ticked off at the response that she got back from the faculty. "I got a response pretty quickly from someone saying that
he/she was disappointed that the blogs weren’t scholarship and that the
list just confirmed that blogs are worthless."

Laura says that academic bloggers recognize that their audience is larger than the handful of scholars who study their topics and that there’s more to life than scholarship. She also questions the usefulness of scholarship and speaks to the need for academics to get out of the ivory tower more.

Get a little sun on that pasty skin, already!

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