Williams has long held a dominant position in a number of categories of blogging: Dan Drezner on economics and politics, Marc Lynch on the Middle East, Ethan Zuckerman on the developing world and really cool conferences, Derek Catsam on history and Red Sox fandom, yours truly on canine physics. And I'm sure I'm forgetting several people.
The number of blogging fields with prominent Eph contributions has increased this week, with the entire Williams math department making the jump into blogging. It's a bold move, but math blogging has always been more respectable than other types.
At this point, I think the only thing left to achieve is to get one of the Steinbrenners (George or Hal) to start a sports blog to rival Mark Cuban's.
Or maybe the thing to do is to take the college's blog connection in the other direction, with Wick Sloane's bid to replace Morty Schapiro as president. OK, fine, IHE isn't a blog, strictly speaking, but it is an online-only academic journal, which is pretty close.
(Obligatory disclaimer: Of all the people I linked, Derek and Ethan are the only ones I know personally. I overlapped with both Dan Drezner and Hal Steinbrenner (Dan graduated when I was a freshman, Hal when I was a sophomore), but I don't believe I ever met either of them. It's a small college, but not that small.)
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"â¦math blogging has always been more respectable than other types."
How true!
I'd add Rachel Barenblat's ('96) Velveteen Rabbi, one of the most popular blogs focused on contemporary judaism - she usually has more readers than I do...
Do you think it's something about very long winters or about isolation that drives us all into the madness of blogging?
Of course, Velveteen Rabbi. Which is also an insanely good name for a blog-- I'm jealous.
I'm not sure what drives the blogging, but it's probably the same factor that leads to the class notes being long enough to be spun off as a separate publication. Even among liberal arts colleges, that's pretty unusual.
Breed 'Em and Weep is an amazingly good personal/parenting blog (Jennifer Mattern is a brilliant writer)
All of these blogs, and about a hundred other Eph bloggers are aggregated by Eph Planet, a feed put together by the people at EphBlog.
Cool! Thanks for publishing that about the math department!