Blogscholar.com was created as a resource for academic bloggers like PhD student Chris Brauer, founder of the site and participant in the revolution:

To this list Chris adds "wanderlust since youth, sometimes obsessed with the outcome of sporting matches, daydreaming, occasionally dressed up to attend events, Paris, Amsterdam, St Albert, created a website and watched it die, created another website, met Arsene Wenger, made love on beach (not with Arsene Wenger), wrote a story, and smelt a rat."