Well, it finally happened. One of my random blog posts, written late at night with relatively little thought, is now a grant proposal. A small grant proposal to be sure, but a grant proposal nonetheless and a project with big money plans down the line and respected interdisciplinary collaborators.
Ha! Who says blogging doesn’t contribute to [...]
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Blogging, Schlmogging
Posted in blogging on March 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Pub Criminology at Contexts
Posted in blogging on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Contexts (ASA’s magazine bringin’ sociology to the masses)* has established a blogging section. In addition to the Contexts Crawler, there are also blogs on particular topics, including technology, Lisa and Gwen’s Sociological Images, and public criminology. You can also apply to blog for Contexts.
Read it, love it, comment. Uggen’s doing the pub crim blog but [...]
New Professors Unite! (With or without ribbons)
Posted in blogging, conferences, on the tenure track, sociology, travel on July 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A few months back, RFN and I discussed the possibility of a gathering of new sociology professors at the ASA meetings. A number of you expressed interest (and inquired about our definition of ‘new’ — if you feel new, you are new). Dave and I have talked and find our dance cards are full for [...]
best google searches
Posted in blogging on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been keeping an informal list of my favorite searches that bring people to my blog. The top four are:
smartest professor ever
petifiles why they are the way they are
brett farv
is incarceration the best way to control crime?
To blog or not to blog?
Posted in blogging on March 14, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Apologies in advance for the excessively long post. I realize what I’m about to raise has been discussed before and I suspect that it happens to most bloggers at some point but… I’m thinking of giving up the blog. Another assistant soc prof blogger caught some flak from his/her department for a post he/she wrote — [...]
I’m no economist but…
Posted in blogging on March 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
it seems to me that if you want families to report the amounts they pay to babysitters and nannies, you might not:
require them to register for an employee identification number,
require them to to fill out W2s for an occasional babysitter,
require them to go through a convoluted mathematical calculation (that a PhD has trouble with) to figure [...]
I Have Been Tagged with the Latest Sociological Meme
Posted in blogging on February 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was tagged (for the first time!) by Soc Prof at global sociology. I don’t mind being tagged but don’t want to bug others — so, for those I tag, consider participation to be optional!
The game: open the nearest book to page 123 and reproduce the 6-8 sentence. I tried Bruce Western’s Punishment and Inequality [...]
Checking blog stats finally pays off…
Posted in blogging on February 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Can you tell by my many posts today that I am using the blog primarily to avoid writing?
Checking the blog stats has finally paid off… Someone found my blog today after the following google search:
smartest professor ever
I show up at the bottom of the first page. Nice.
I may need to include this in my T&P [...]
Oh, what have I done?
Posted in blogging on January 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve decided I really like blogging — it oddly makes me more productive because it gets me in the mood for writing and it’s a nice way to process the first-year on the tenure track without burdening your colleagues, friends, and family with your worries. The main problem has been WordPress’ blog stats. You can [...]
Privilege*
Posted in blogging on January 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I like the series of posts on privilege making their way around the soc blogs today (see here and here and so on)…and was SHOCKED to see how I ranked.** We were solidly middle-class growing up but my parents are hardy midwestern types who would never flaunt wealth, never drive a car where reliability wasn’t the [...]
