Comments on: Airborne

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:07:49 +0000

Brett: Yeah, I cheated didn’t I? Slipped straight from wondering if a phenomenon exists to theorising why it exists, without bothering in between about little things like, well does it really exist…

And, rain? Who needs rain when we have a friendly lightmeter?

Mark: Surely not…

Tony: Not that I know of. Although I expect you can find Sealed Knotters blogging about ~~getting pissed~~ re-enactment stuff if you poke around.

By: tony

tony — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 13:43:56 +0000

I was hoping Civil War would be the real (i.e. *our* civil war). Are there any blogs about that?

By: Mark Grimsley

Mark Grimsley — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:06:11 +0000

Your observation about military historians and academic blogging suggests to me that perhaps I was more correct than I knew when I wrote
: “anybody dumb enough to be an academic military historian in the first place is probably dumb enough to blog about it.”

By: Linkage | Airminded

Linkage | Airminded — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:28:15 +0000

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By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:32:19 +0000

I appreciate the kind words about my blog, even if they do come from a Pom! You better pray for more rain

Speaking for myself, I started to blog because I have been working in IT for a few years now, in fact set up my first website about a decade ago, and so it seemed natural to have some sort of web presence for my research. Also, I vaguely felt that I should be at the bleeding edge (or at least somewhere in the vicinity!) because of my IT experience, and it’s by now obvious that blogging is the coming thing (if it hasn’t arrived already). That’s aside from the usual academic reasons for wanting to blog.

Well that doesn’t really answer your question. But it’s hard to say if military historians are really over-represented in the blogosphere: the total amount of blogging historians is really so tiny (how many does the average history department have? One, none?) that I don’t think any statistically significant conclusions can yet be drawn about which specialties blogs more and why …

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:51:00 +0000

Sorry, I should probably have made it clearer that ‘Mark’ (link at the beginning of the post) is Blog them out of the Stone Age…

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:21:06 +0000

Another military blog: Blog Them Out of the Stone Age

By: Another Damned Medievalist

Another Damned Medievalist — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:52:38 +0000

Someday, when I have a job … or a publication or two …

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:37:01 +0000

That’s a good idea I hadn’t thought of. And I shall have to take a look at those posts!

By: Alun

Alun — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:02:18 +0000

There's also an interesting community of Biblical Studies bloggers which is often interesting. For example:

We are in the habit of reading out papers not because we have thought it through and have decided that it is the best way to communicate with other scholars but because it is an academic convention, something we have all inherited, that we assume is the way to do things without question. Mark Goodacre

which led to posts from Philo of Alexandria and a couple from Ed Cook at Ralph the Sacred River on How to Read a Scholarly Paper and More on Reading a Scholarly Paper. Could it be that smaller fields form communities on the net easier?