Matthew G. Kirschenbaum: Why I Blog Under My Own Name (and a Modest Proposal) is a response to a piece of tosh in the Chronicle for Higher Education. Matt follows up with a call for people to comment on how blogging has helped them. If you have reasons for academical blogging post a comment so that he can send a response to the Chronicle.
The Chronicle article “Bloggers Need Not Apply” describes how some people may not have got jobs because their blogs revealed too much. While this is a general problem I suspect it is more true about e-mail than blogging. There is an ethical issue here that needs to be teased out – why would it be best to hide ones thinking? Would you want to get a job for the wrong reasons?