This comic serves as a timely reminder about our inaugural Blogger and Online Publication session at SBL.
S22-209
Blogger and Online Publication
11/22/2010
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Room: A702 – Marriott Marquis
Theme: The Past, Present, and Future of Blogging and Online Publication
Robert R. Cargill, University of California-Los Angeles, Presiding
James Davila, University of St. Andrews-Scotland
What Just Happened: The rise of “biblioblogging” in the first decade of the twenty-first century (25 min)
Christian Brady, Pennsylvania State University University Park
Online Biblical Studies: Past, Present, Promise, and Peril (25 min)
Michael Barber, John Paul the Great Catholic University
Weblogs and the Academy: The Benefits and Challenges of Biblioblogging (25 min)
James McGrath, Butler University
The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship (25 min)
Robert R. Cargill, University of California-Los Angeles
Instruction, Research, and the Future of Online Educational Technologies (25 min)
Discussion (25 min)
In a similar vein on Sunday there will be a special panel discussion that I will also participate in.
S21-314
E-Publish or Perish?
11/21/2010
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Room: Hanover Hall G – Hyatt Regency
Theme: Sponsored by SBL Publications
Enthusiasm for electronic scholarship, like the technology that enables it, seems destined to grow exponentially into the foreseeable future. To help scholars and students navigate this dense and ever-shifting landscape, SBL Publications is sponsoring a special session on the challenges and opportunities presented by e-publishing. In this overview, panelists with hands-on electronic publishing experience discuss some of the open-access forms that e-publishing may take, including monograph series, online journals, blogs, and online resources, then answer questions from the audience. Possible future sessions may explore other issues related to e-scholarship, such as tenure/promotion review, rights and copyright, open access, and using e-scholarship in the classroom.
Charles Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Presiding
Charles Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Introduction (10 min)
Christian Brady, Pennsylvania State University, Panelist (15 min)
Ehud Ben Zvi, University of Alberta, Panelist (15 min)
Caroline Vander Stichele, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Panelist (15 min)
Ian Scott, Tyndale University College and Seminary (Ontario), Panelist (15 min)
Charles Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, Respondent (20 min)
Discussion (30 min)
3 thoughts on “Blogging: Is anyone out there?”
I respond in kind: Sometimes I’m just grateful to hit a topic I can write about (http://blaugh.com/2007/07/09/think-before-you-blog/). Occasionally I wonder if it makes a difference (http://blaugh.com/2007/02/13/if-a-blog-falls/) and every so often, I need to be pulled away from the computer screen (http://xkcd.com/386/). Your mileage may vary.
What I have learned is that to get readership you have to visit other blogs and comment. You have to visit ALOT of other blogs. I don’t have the patience for that, so will probably never have a lot of readers.