Kieran Healy

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Like Matt, I also got interviewed by a journalist from the Chronicle of Higher Education for a story about blogging. I don’t think I said anything I couldn’t stand by in print, but who knows? I wouldn’t be the first interviewee to be damned out of his own mouth:

Junior faculty member Kieran Healy, soon to be formerly of the University of Arizona, initially said he only “spent a half hour or so over breakfast” on his blog each day but later hinted that he “wastes entire days polishing posts” and hasn’t “written a scholarly word all semester.” He went on to giggle uncontrollably for several minutes.

Tenure for Bloggers

Kieran Healy’s having nightmares about what may become of his interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education:Junior faculty member Kieran Healy, soon to be formerly of the University of Arizona, initially said he only “spent a half hour or so…

TOOO funny! :-))

Yeah, I could tell from your last submission. ;)

lol Blogging phenomenon: inability to get any REAL work done and a desperate, sucking need to repolish posts and scan the web for new sources of info.

Academic Blogging

Speaking of Professor Cooper, his recent post on academic blogging looks at the pros and cons of blogging as a law professor. Coming from a different part of the academy (English), I’d say his reflections are correct, as are the comments he quotes from…

A Natural Progression

Brayden King is in Depression, Stage 4 of the Five Stages of Blogging. Characterized by morbid feelings that your blog may somehow get you into trouble, this stage follows Denial (“I don’t really have a blog, it’s just a webpage…