Blogs on Academic Blogging
Why Do Academics Blog: Peer-Reviewed Journal Article that studies Academic Blogs (hopefully still free)
London School of Economics: Impact Blog (multiple posts)
Prof Hacker: Talking about Blogging in Tenure and Application Documents and Updating Your Website (includes links to other relevant posts about hosting your own site) and On Blogging and Creating a Web Presence.
Tenured Radical: Writing a Good Blog Post
Teaching College English: Education Blogging (multiple posts)
Speculative Diction: Should You Enter the Academic Blogosphere and The Debate on Academic Blogging
University of Venus: Voices in Cyberspace and So You Want to Blog (Academic Edition) and Minority Scholars Cannot Afford to be Silent and What is a Blog Post? and Blogs in Higher Education: Some Benefits and Downsides and Why you, in Higher Ed, Should Blog
Digital Scholarship @ The Libraries (OSU): On Scholarly Blogging (multiple posts)
Tressiemc: The Power of Thinking in Public (currently broken) and Risks and Ethics of Public Scholarship and Theorizing on Women, Academe, Blogging, and Power
The Junto: With Malice Towards None: An Academic Blogging Manifesto
Novel Readings: Should Graduate Student Blog? and In Defense of Academic Blogging and Accept No Substitutes
Patter: On Blogging (multiple posts) and Lessons from Two Years of Blogging
Bavatuesdays: Gulou or, Public Scholarship in the Digital Age (also, the whole blog is great for helping you setup your own blog or domain)
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity and Once a Tortoise, Never a Hare
Inside Higher Ed: A Skeptic’s Take on Academic Blogs and An Enthusiasts View of Academic Blogs
Melissa Terras' Blog: Is Blogging and Tweeting about Research Worth It?
Digital Digs: Where Does Academic Blogging Lead? and On the Value of Academic Blogging
Ways of Improvement Leads Home: What Academic Blogging can (and cannot) do for you
Historiann: We’re Gonna Blog like it’s 1399!
Overcoming Bias: Academic Blog Credit?
Ian Bogost: Beyond Blogs: How do Academics want to Read and Write
Academic Evolution: Scholar or Public Intellectual
Workbook: About Blogs
Reassigned Time 2.0: Dr. Crazy Beats a Dead Pseudonymous Horse and Why Write? (A Blog, that is)
Jonathan Dresner at Cliopatria: Blogging The Revolution
College Ready Writing: Why I Blog and Gotcha! How Open is Too Open? and To Blog or Not To Blog
Early Modern Notes: Academic Blogging - Pleasure and Credit
Ana Canhoto: The Performance Review
Student Affairs and Technology: Question about Blogging and Blogging with Grace and Clarity and Blogging at yourname[dot]com
Provost Prose: Faculty Blogs
Library Babel Fish: Serial Scholarship: Blogging as Traditional Academic Practice
Cocktail Party Physics: Open Lab 2011 - Blogging Comes of Age
The Urban Scientist: Science, Social Media, and #scicomm and Broadening Participation of Underrepresented Populations science and science communications
Context and Variation: Blogging While Female, and Why We Need a Posse and Sex, Gender, and Controversy and Connect Science with Feminism, Blogs with Research
Uncertain Principles: Affirmation Means Employment and Blogging is Not Mandatory
American Studies: Blogger, Examine Thyself
The Atlantic: The Best Academic Blogs
Writer’s Web: Effective Academic Blogging
MattMight: Six Tips for Busy Academics
The Life Academic: Blogging Academia
Mainly Macro: Advice for Potential Academic Bloggers
Society for US Intellectual History (s-usih): What is the Status of an Academic Blog Post?
The Guardian (UK): Transcript of a live-chat on The Power and Pitfalls of Academic Blogging
SAGE: The Importance of Academic Blogging
Mark Carrigan: What is ‘Academic Blogging’?
The Immanent Frame: Blogging and Academia
Scientopia: Why Choose to Blog Pseudononymously
Washington Law Review: Blogging While Untenured and Blogs and Promotion and Tenure Letter
Blogging and Tenure:
Interchange Project: Blogging for Tenure (podcast)
Science: Science Blogging and Tenure
Just TV: Thoughts on Blogging for Tenure
ProfHacker: Talking about Blogging in Tenure and Application Documents
John Hawks Weblog: How to Blog, Get Tenure, and Prosper
HASTAC: Should Blogs Count for Tenure and Promotion?
Shouting Loudly: On Academic Blogging and Tenure
Publishing Technology: Will Blog for Tenure
Jason’s Computer Science Blog: Including Blogs in Tenure and Promotion
Lauren’s Library Blog: Blogging and Tenure
The Chutry Experiment: Blogging and Tenure
Crooked Timber: Blogging and Tenure
Ancient Hebrew Grammar: Dangers of Blogging
Near Ammaus: Dangers of Blogging, a response
Athabasca University: Documenting scholarly blogging for Tenure and Promotion
mcburton: Blogging for Tenure
Preposterous Universe: Blogging without Tenure
Bill Wolff: On blogging, tweeting, professional and course websites, and tenure
Early Adopters of Academic Blogging:
Ghost In The Machine (circa 1999 but current archives only go back to May 2002)
jill/txt (October 2000)
Instapundit (August 2001)
Rhetorica (April 2002)
Planned Obsolescence (June 2002)
Teaching College English (December 2002)
Wordherders (Group Blog, June 2003)
Little Professor (October 2003)
Scholars Who Blog (Report from CHE June 2003)
Distant Mirrors and the LAMP (Talk from MLA13 about early academic work made available on the web)
Humanities Scholars and the Web: Past, Present, and Future (Podcast on history of academic blogs)
Weblogs: A History and Perspective (about blogs generally, but a perhaps some were “academic”)
Other advice on Blogging:
Sell Out Your Soul: How to Create a Blog That People Actually Read and SEO for Writers ($) and Expand Your Blog’s Reach
#blogchat on Twitter: What is #blogchat?
Group Blogs:
(All of the above blogs started as group blogs hosted privately and were “picked up” by IHE or CHE)
Scientific America Blog Network
Academic Blog Aggregators:
AcademicBlogs.net (out of date)
Blogging Platforms:
wordpress.com
Blogger.com
tumblr.com
commons.mla.org (if you are an MLA member)
wordpress.org
commonsinabox.org (for group blogs)
Hosting:
Bluehost offers specials for faculty and students (including graduate students)