Vanity, Thy Price is $6.95 a year

What am I talking about? Check this out — a new address: http://superbon.net or http://superbon.org. I can’t decide which to make the actual address. I think I like .net, but then it’s already sterneworks.org. I so should not be spending time thinking about this. I mostly did it because Wired told me to. No questions …

Meanwhile, elsewhere on Sterneworks. . . .

I haven’t been blogging much the past couple days as I’ve been using my blog time to update other parts of the site. As job season will soon be beginning, I thought it was time for my annual update of the “Professionalization” section of my website. There’s a bunch of new stuff up there — …

More on Academic Blogging

The Barnacle of Higher Ed has been covering the controversy over academic blogging (or doing their best to manufacture one) for over a year now. The latest is a symposium on whether blogging “damaged” Juan Cole’s career. Cole is a middle east expert and a full professor at the University of Michigan. The “damage”? Apparently …