• http://www.slate.com/id/2130466/

After this summer's Chronicle article "Bloggers Need Not Apply," which discussed the dangers of such a "public display of a [job] applicant's personal eccentricities,"  Slate's "Attack of the Killer Blogs" points out yet another pitfall -- "Many [academics] perceive blogs as evidence of a scholar's lack of seriousness. Shouldn't he be putting more time into scholarship, they wonder, and less into his blog? And if a blogger does have something serious to say, why is he presenting it in a superficial medium, rather than a peer-reviewed journal?"