tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post2907455688762114427..comments2024-03-09T03:20:20.004-05:00Comments on Tenured Radical: Friday Guest Posting: Katrina Gulliver, "In Olden Days, A Glimpse of Blogging"Tenured Radicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-9135985239558543792012-07-09T06:33:50.687-05:002012-07-09T06:33:50.687-05:00This article focuses on what a learner should take...This article focuses on what a learner should take into consideration when choosing the right accelerated online degree program. Some very useful tips are written to make it easier for an online learner to make a decision. Visit <a href="http://betteronlinedegrees.com/online-bachelor-degrees/online-degree-cost" rel="nofollow">Read more</a> for the details.garywackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15073786751425259658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-53167712312864712272012-07-09T06:31:33.150-05:002012-07-09T06:31:33.150-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.garywackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15073786751425259658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-15756838361655192222012-06-22T10:41:32.872-05:002012-06-22T10:41:32.872-05:00an excellent article I like very much recommendan excellent article I like very much recommendsports handicapping serviceshttp://www.priceperheadcostarica.com/betting-software-services/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-66807398101334174252012-04-27T21:09:38.414-05:002012-04-27T21:09:38.414-05:00I really admire this, I mean it really looks inter...I really admire this, I mean it really looks interesting! Very nice write up. Anyways, its a Great postprice per headhttp://www.priceperheadcostarica.com/betting-software-services/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-40556860724221070322012-04-23T02:37:00.629-05:002012-04-23T02:37:00.629-05:00Resources like the one you mentioned here will be ...Resources like the one you mentioned here will be very useful to me! I will post a link to this page on my blog if you don?t mind! Because I am sure my visitors will find that very useful!Logo Designhttp://www.brandedlogodesigns.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-17124647451033972452012-04-04T04:59:30.314-05:002012-04-04T04:59:30.314-05:00This blog Is very informative, I am really pleased...This blog Is very informative, I am really pleased to post my comment on this blog. It helped me with ocean of knowledge so I really belive you will do much better in the future. Good job web master.Ready-Made Logohttp://www.logodesignuniverse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-2786982418354142212012-03-19T02:14:44.762-05:002012-03-19T02:14:44.762-05:00You have done a Great job, keep doing more work li...You have done a Great job, keep doing more work like this ! Thanks.Internet Marketing Agencyhttp://www.ebrandster.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-70970181235487181242011-02-02T04:43:06.021-05:002011-02-02T04:43:06.021-05:00Comrade does not appear to have read this properly...Comrade does not appear to have read this properly. It must be a sore spot. With that much pent up aggression, it's no wonder they use a pseudonym. One does not need to defend oneself against non-existent attacks. Take a deep breath, re-read & move on (as the original poster suggested, in a less patronising way than myself).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-42995004115610905752011-01-29T04:48:20.443-05:002011-01-29T04:48:20.443-05:00Thanks for all the comments.
Comradephysioprof: ...Thanks for all the comments. <br /><br />Comradephysioprof: wow, this excited you enough for you to post about it on your own blog too. Thank you for demonstrating one of the benefits of pseudonymity: right now if someone googles me, your invective-filled screed is on the first page of results. <br /><br />But nomatter. It’s clear you have no idea where I’m coming from (and little interest in thinking about it). Yes, it’s easier to take the ad-hominem attacks of the internet with a pseudonym as a shield. And easier to dish it out, if one is so inclined. <br /><br />Read this part again:<br /><br />"<b>I don't think online pseudonymity is inherently wrong or cowardly - it can serve a purpose, of which I have availed myself occasionally</b>. Ann Little has discussed in the latest Common-Place some of the strengths and heritage of pseudonymous presentation. But the pseudonymity of the internet allowing for gender imposture is not one much explored (for all of Marilee Lindemann's dogvoice blog). Are these bloggers really female, and does it really matter? On some level it does. Voice appropriation is not mentioned in the framing of pseudonymity as a shield, by presumably honest brokers of the blog world. For every online Silence Dogood or Currer Bell, there will be a Forrest Carter, Binjamin Wilkomirski, or Helen Demidenko." <br /><br />Perhaps you don’t know who some of those people are – and therefore the historical context for what I wrote – which is something the commenters at your blog seem to be particularly interested in. My own research deals with the idea of voice appropriation and if you don’t know what that is, I suggest you look it up. <br /><br />When I first started blogging, I used a pseudonym: everyone did. It was a pseudonym I used in a number of different places online, maintaining a consistent identity. Heck, I knew some of you back then. I had my own (real name) domain for a professional site, and made a conscious decision around 2004 to bring my blog across to that site and continue it under my own name. Gradually, I dropped the pseud. almost everywhere, although it still remains in a couple of log-in group memberships. <br /><br />I have been stalked (online, and on the phone after someone traced my number), had my email hacked, and just last year was threatened with sexual violence because someone didn’t like something I wrote online (not on my blog, but in a comment on another site). That had nothing to do with my role as a historian, and everything to do with my being a woman voicing a feminist opinion. <br /><br />I have never said to any particular blogger that they should “drop the veil”. People have their own reasons. I am saying that right now, in academic history – which still suffers from sexism don’tcha know? - there is a risk of perpetuating a system where women are silenced, or made to feel they can only speak out from behind a pseudonym. <br /><br />If you’re really interested, I can post something in more detail at my site (so you can b!tchslap me further there, if you like), rather than taking up TR’s real estate.Katrinahttp://www.katrinagulliver.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-14127670904700083512011-01-29T00:38:17.709-05:002011-01-29T00:38:17.709-05:00More than most things, the internet is there to be...More than most things, the internet is there to be whatever we want it to be. You have shown how, at a time when having an online presence is a positive rather than a negative, a blog can be used for career advancement. There are all sorts of reasons why people might not want to use their names, and some very good blogs are written under pseudonyms. The very idea of blogs is fascinating; there are more worthwhile blogs in the world than there will ever be time to read them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-90441896028187573622011-01-28T22:24:32.235-05:002011-01-28T22:24:32.235-05:00KC: You may -- I like guest blogging!KC: You may -- I like guest blogging!Tenured Radicalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703980598547163290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-90961314174556324882011-01-28T18:22:40.709-05:002011-01-28T18:22:40.709-05:00Ooh, may I guest blog too?!
I'm pretty sure yo...Ooh, may I guest blog too?!<br />I'm pretty sure you have a lot more readers than I do!<br /><br />Seriously, this is a great post. Thanks.Knitting Cliohttp://hmprescott.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-86562406379820950002011-01-28T18:14:05.497-05:002011-01-28T18:14:05.497-05:00It looks like a comment of mine got munched--so ap...It looks like a comment of mine got munched--so apologies in advance if this ends up looking like a double-post.<br /><br />I think Katrina's post, and some of the reactions to it, are indicative of just how much the academic blogosphere has changed in just 5 or 6 years. Back then in the early- and mid-2000s, my sense of the academic blogosphere is that it was full of people experimenting with a new medium for intellectual and professional connections, especially since so many of us seem to have jobs outside of major metro areas and without anyone in our fields to talk to. Women and/or scholars of color were especially cautious about their real life identities, and I think for all of the good reasons CPP mentions in his comment. Again, given that many of us are the only ones who look like us in small departments and rural colleges and universities, it seems like blogging pseudonymously was only prudent.<br /><br />At this point, blogging under one's own name versus pseudonymity is largely a matter of personal choice. I no longer think tenure is as much of a dividing line w/r/t online identities, and as Leslie M-B's comment notes, there are wonderful examples for how people have effectively used their blogs and blog personae for professional advancement. <br /><br />Bloggers like Katrina and me owe our courageous pseudonymous pioneers a debt of gratitude, for navigating new technologies and helping us see the possibilites of digital communication outside of e-mail. I appreciate Katrina's provocative feminist challenge for others to go bravely under their own names into the blogosphere. But I appreciate the pseudonymous bloggers (not to mention commenters!) because of the things in our professional lives they can address better than those of us who blog under our own names.Historiannhttp://historiann.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-48326273071807066792011-01-28T16:01:23.343-05:002011-01-28T16:01:23.343-05:00Thanks for the mention Katrina - everything you sa...Thanks for the mention Katrina - everything you said is exactly right. I certainly could not have gained the traction I did without Twitter, and the blog has definitely become more than the sum of its parts. <br /><br />I chose not to blog anonymously, and in the end I pretty much had to flip a coin to make that choice. Of course, I did not have a job to lose, or colleagues to rankle - but then my blog is about basic social history, not how I feel about my colleagues or prospects. Still, the urge to stay beneath the parapet was there.<br /><br />My first post on eighteenth century homosexuality brought plenty of freaks out of their closet and my inbox was full of niceties about what a putrid whore I must be - but who cares? These people are googling 'gay brothels london' according to the stats. <br /><br />I can, and have lost both speaking engagements and jobs because of my er, liberal stance on the blog. I'm an independent scholar and I treat it as a business; I can't afford to lose any job. Yet nor will I deny the blog or what I've written there. Most of the time it works in my favour, but falls way behind the other work I have produced when it comes to finding employment. <br /><br />The world is ever more dynamic and the window in which to be seen, recognised and given a chance getting ever smaller. Love your blog. Be proud of it under your own name or whatever name you choose. If you don't feel it's good enough to put on your CV at an apparently confidential interview, then perhaps it's time to give it up and do something else.lucyinglishttp://georgianlondon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-78380436649382145852011-01-28T12:37:30.430-05:002011-01-28T12:37:30.430-05:00We would not be able to rumble grumpily if it were...We would not be able to rumble grumpily if it were not for anonymity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-84025954430840467662011-01-28T12:00:55.220-05:002011-01-28T12:00:55.220-05:00I never intended for my blogs to be tools in my se...I never intended for my blogs to be tools in my search for academic jobs, but my blog about museums landed me a teaching gig in an excellent museum studies M.A. program where I was seriously considering applying as a student, even though I already had a Ph.D.<br /><br />Last year, after five years on the job market, I finally landed my first interview for a t-t job. (I have an apparently unattractive interdisciplinary Ph.D. and was looking for a job inside a discipline.) I fessed up to having a large internet presence because I figured they'd Google my name anyway. To make them feel more comfortable reading my blog without feeling like voyeurs, during my initial interview I informed the search committee I'd posted a letter to them on my personal blog. It appears that letter helped me considerably in getting the on-campus interview, which then led to my current job (in a history department).<br /><br />As you might imagine, then, I'm a huge cheerleader for blogging.Leslie M-Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434392840359276805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-7767094568100559802011-01-28T10:44:02.443-05:002011-01-28T10:44:02.443-05:00I liked the text and the point of view. I am a Bra...I liked the text and the point of view. I am a Brazilian historian. I realize here that the professionals also have difficulty in using tools like the Internet and the blog for various reasons such as those raised by Katrina Gulliver.<br />I believe that, especially as historians, ownership of tools for knowledge work is essential today.Carlos Oliveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618869301538547710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-45456949324169040942011-01-28T10:00:00.586-05:002011-01-28T10:00:00.586-05:00I found your blog about a year ago and I LOVE IT. ...I found your blog about a year ago and I LOVE IT. Not only for the insights into the weirdness of academic life, but also for your efforts to connect theory and reality and to show that what we do actually matters and has relevance. <br /><br />I am a political scientist, not a historian, but much of what you write about crosses disciplinary bounds. My area of specialization has always been one that attracted far more men than women. Historically, there has been a strong disciplinary message that topics involving women/"others" aren't all that relevant and won't translate into a solid career, no matter how important they may seem to the likes of me. <br /><br />As a youngish grad student straight out of college, with no serious clue about either the academic or the "real" world, trying to figure out how to balance the competing intellectual, professional and societal demands of being an academic and a woman (and a mother), I felt I was practically begging for some kind of mentoring. And it wasn't there. Not even from the few women in the field, including my former adviser (a well-known woman of formidable ability, for whom I have great respect, but who was in many ways worse than the men). <br /><br />TR your insights, career advice, and modeling of how informed dialog can bridge "real" and "academic" worlds to further one's research agenda would have been a huge help to me 15 years ago. I wish I'd "known" you then, but I'm glad that voices like yours are out there now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-70642793740278643762011-01-28T09:15:30.518-05:002011-01-28T09:15:30.518-05:00Frankly, if FSP ever comes out of anonymity, I'...Frankly, if FSP ever comes out of anonymity, I'm in some serious sh!t. I've been claiming to be her for years!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-465848549305622042011-01-28T08:43:09.516-05:002011-01-28T08:43:09.516-05:00I was just going to say that some of us with pseud...I was just going to say that some of us with pseudonyms have them because they don't want their blogs to operate as professional documents. That's why I remain Dr. Crazy, long after lots of people know who I am in real life. Or I was going to say something along the lines of "Are we REALLY still having the conversation about pseudonyms vs. "real" names? Seriously? Because I thought I dealt with this in 2004, when I started blogging, and I seriously think rehashing it is a waste of time." <br /><br />But having read CP's passionate and thoughtful defense of pseudonymity, I will say that he said it all better than I felt like spending the time and energy to do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-22675334498567588352011-01-28T08:27:29.266-05:002011-01-28T08:27:29.266-05:00This is a very interesting and well-written post, ...This is a very interesting and well-written post, but the snide passive-aggressive pseudonymity bashing is a steaming load of fucken bullshitte.<br /><br />First, there are very good reasons for people to adopt a pseudonym beyond "in some cases seem[ing] more like an egotistical pose". Is this author aware of the actual fucken death threats that some bloggers have received and the disgusting violent verbal sexual attacks many bloggers receive on a daily basis? Is this author aware that the vast majority of bloggers who report this shitte are women? Who's "posing egotistically" when the first sentence of a blogge poste points out that the blogger "is a historian based at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich"?<br /><br />Second, if anything, it is the *eponymous* bloggers who are "cowardly" and refuse to operate "without a net", hiding behind the cloak of their real world credentials instead of allowing their writing to stand on its own and risking finding out that their blogge suckes asse and no one wants to read itte.<br /><br />Third, as far as the "retreat path of deleting a pseudonymous blog, with plausible deniability", more fucken bullshitte. There are numerous pseudonymous bloggers who have been blogging for fucken *years*, and have established a reserve of credibility and expertise with an extensive audience based solely on the reliability and excellence of their writing. Deletion of one of these blogges is done with no more or less plausible deniability than that of an eponymous blogge. And, anyway, is this author aware that *nothing* on the Internet can really be deleted and that there are publicly accessible archives of pretty much everything?<br /><br />Finally, what could possibly be the fucken *point* of bashing pseudonymous bloggers like this, other than to attempt to deny them credibility and silence their voices? Is it a cowardly fear that someone might build a large audience that treats them as a voice of credibility without having to wave around degrees, CVs, and institutional affiliations like a fucken bludgeon? Is it the cowardly fear that in a competition for audience that includes pseudonymous bloggers, degrees, CVs, and institutional affiliations might not be worth jacke shitte?<br /><br />Gah, what a ridiculous pompous display.Comrade PhysioProfhttp://physioprof.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212542.post-60674326487814463202011-01-28T07:39:06.420-05:002011-01-28T07:39:06.420-05:00Thanks, TR! For those who came in late, what I wro...Thanks, TR! For those who came in late, what I wrote here was in response to the round-table on women's history blogging hosted by TR in the latest <a rel="nofollow">Journal of Women's History</a>Katrinahttp://www.katrinagulliver.comnoreply@blogger.com