Greetings economic geographers,
If any of you have been experimenting with blogs in economic geography,
for research or teaching purposes, please contact me. I've been working
with some academics (in geog, sociology, education), and several
administrative and policy world colleagues, in an effort to use the
platform of a blog to shed light on various dimensions of the rapid
construction of a new "global industry"; one that you are all familiar
with no doubt. The blog can be located here:
http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/
It was established on 1 September so these are early days. Critical
feedback welcome as we're still working out a lot of bugs in the system,
trying to get the tone right, figuring out far to go with hyperlinks
(which help identify some aspects of the networks that matter), and how
to best reach our target audiences (which have tended to communicate via
site visits and plenty of private emails, so far, versus going
"on-the-record").
Thanks...
Kris Olds
PS: Is it a good or bad sign that economic geographers seem to be
developing so few blogs? Or am I wrong in stating this? Faculty in
business and economics are very active in the development of blogs (see
http://www.gongol.com/lists/bizeconsites/ or
http://www.currencytrading.net/2007/the-top-100-economics-blogs/), as
are law professors (http://www.lawprofessorblogs.com/). Everyone knows
that blogging is *not* a replacement for articles, chapters and books,
but I do wonder about the implications of economic geographers making
limited contributions, on-line, to the freely accessible "carnival of
ideas" http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i07/07b01401.htm, where
complementary conversations happen, and we reach new (and sometimes
unexpected) audiences.
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