Wikilinks: 
-Essjay, the prolific Wikipedian introduced in Stacy Schiff's article "Know It All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?" as a tenured professor of religion, is actually a 24 year-old with no academic credentials.  I love this so much because (1) it's such a good story--not even the NYer is safe from the ephemeral confabulations of web culture--and (2) it offers the hope that all truths will be revealed.
-Timothy Noah in Slate is making a good case that Wikipedia should abandon its notability guideline.  
-The Academic Blog Portal is a wiki aggregating blogs by academics.  If you haven't already, go add or edit entries.  (It annoys me that I am most suited  either to the Culture, Theory, Literature category under Humanities or the Media and Communications category under Professions and Useful Arts.  I think of myself as a media humanist.  Categories, huh?  Anyhow, annoyed, but not enough to do anything but complain.  Useful arts is a funny phrase.  Who studies useless arts?)
Update: check out the motherlode of Essjay links.
 
2 comments:
Loved that note in TNY. The tone of it, the fact of it, the whole thing.
I don't think the creators of the portal knew what to do with media studies people. IIRC, I'm in Culture, Theory, Literature, too.
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