Blogscholar is intended as a resource for academics who blog. See who else is expressing themselves in the directory, tap into slick RSS feeds using Storyfinder for sources of inspiration, read the latest news items on this site or access archive posts of articles about academic blogging.

This website is non profit and built using open source software. I am committed to keeping it up to date but it is in the spirit of the emerging academic blog community that this resource exists. Join me in shaping the future of this humble enterprise.

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What more can you expect from the best alternative weekly in the world? New York's Village Voice chimes in on the challenges and opportunities of academic blogging. In the spirit of founder Norman Mailer, this article asks what it means to be a public intellectual.

"Imagine if the great thinkers of the past could have blogged, bouncing ideas off each other in real time, engaging in rapid-fire debates across borders."