{"id":2853,"date":"2011-03-05T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T03:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2011-04-07T13:19:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T18:19:58","slug":"hold-your-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/03\/05\/hold-your-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold your fire…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of my favorite object-oriented bloggers (who we’ll call A) writes<\/a> that “It’s not surprising that there’s a wave of attacks on scholarly blogging<\/em>” (emphasis added), pointing to another’s (B’s) post<\/a> about “blowback from academics regarding blogging.” B’s post cites only two examples, “here on (A’s) blog<\/a> (circularity #1) and here on (C’s).<\/a>” The one on A’s blog mentions only C’s, and the one on C’s refers to a certain D’s<\/a> and… back to A<\/a>, where the only mention of blogging comes on an mp3 link. D’s, meanwhile, as I explained here<\/a>, referred to a single “question raised” about blogging — one critical comment amidst dozens — in a discussion on a particular listserv.<\/p>\n

So we have one attack that’s really just a curmudgeonly whine (the one from the listserv that, in its context, turned out to be the exception that proved the rule, which is that everyone loves blogging<\/em>). And we have a second (on A’s mp3, which I haven’t listened to, so I can’t say much more about).<\/p>\n

Friends, what say we wave off the attacks, relax, exhale?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite object-oriented bloggers (who we’ll call A) writes that “It’s not surprising that there’s a wave of attacks on scholarly blogging” (emphasis added), pointing to another’s (B’s) post about “blowback from academics regarding blogging.” B’s post cites only two examples, “here on (A’s) blog (circularity #1) and here on (C’s).” The one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog_stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-K1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7544,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/05\/19\/ethics-of-live-blogging\/","url_meta":{"origin":2853,"position":0},"title":"Ethics of live-blogging","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Brian Leiter's blog\u00a0recently hosted\u00a0some interesting conversations on the ethics of live-blogging academic talks. 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