Archive for the ‘scholarly blogs’ Category

TDL blog service experiencing technical difficulties

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

The TDL Scholarly Blog service is currently down, due to a hardware failure. TDL staff are working on the issue and expect to restore service by 8:00 AM on August 31.

TDL Scholarly Blogs upgraded to WordPress 3.1

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Read about the new features available in the latest version of WordPress, the popular blogging software hosted by the TDL for its members.

TDL offers WordPress training in March

Monday, February 28th, 2011

The Texas Digital Library will offer training on WordPress blogging software on March 22 at Baylor University in Waco.

TDL holds December training course on WordPress

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

The Texas Digital Library will offer training on WordPress blogging software for creating blogs and websites on December 15 in Waco.

The benefits of blogging for academics

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Why do academics blog? That’s the question explored in Sara Kjellberg’s article “I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context,” found in the latest issue of First Monday.

Academic blogging: escaping the ivory tower

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

The UC Berkeley alumni magazine California has published an article on academic blogging, with tales of some of the more well-known bloggers of the genre like Brad DeLong, John Holbo, and Dan Drezner.