Category Archives: Blogging

Congratulations to Larvartus Prodeo and Tim Blair, Crikey blogs of the year. And if you want to vote for best Australian/New Zealand blog (contenders include John Quiggin, Tim Blair, Andrew Bartlett and Andrew Bolt), you’d better go here before Dec 15.

Over at Club Troppo, Ken Parish has been doing a tri-weekly series of posts (Mon, Wed, Fri) called “The Missing Link” that summarise what he reckons is the best of the Australian independent blogosphere. It’s a cracker read, and you … Continue reading →

Brian Gongol has updated his rankings of worldwide economics and business blogs. Ranked by pageviews, this blog is the 41st most popular economics blog in the world. According to Brian, if Marginal Revolution is the New York Times of the … Continue reading →

Returning from Fraser Island, where my wife and I eloped for a few days to celebrate her 30th birthday, I discover I’ve missed 150 emails, a couple of dozen blog comments, and a -2 degree cold snap in Canberra. It may … Continue reading →

Next time someone asks you “what’s the point of blogs?”, you can answer “well, there’s one case in the US where they might have saved a guy from being executed”.

Andrew Norton, formerly of Catallaxy*, has struck out with a solo blog (“Observations from Carlton’s lone classical liberal”). Andrew’s a mate, and in my view one of the best public intellectuals on the conservative side of politics. He’s kicked off with … Continue reading →

Malcolm Gladwell has two posts on the blogosphere and academic writing. I agree with him 100%. Joshua Gans argues that An Inconvenient Truth is the perfect kids’ movie. Fred Argy reckons that Australia has too much “upper class welfare”. Yobbo’s … Continue reading →

An interesting thing seems to have happened this week. I’ve discovered that comments I post on other Australian blogs – Club Troppo, John Quiggin, Joshua Gans, Road to Surfdom – are immediately eaten by the spam filter. My guess is … Continue reading →

I’ve started using Windows Live Writer – thanks to JG for the tip.

I’ve finally gotten around to dropping all my posts from the Imagining Australia blog into this one, so the archive in the sidebar now covers July 2004 onwards. The comments also seem to have come across ok. The only downside … Continue reading →

A friend of my wife’s is a medical doctor in the US, and has taken up blogging as Chloe, MD. She writes poignantly, and I hope she will post more often. I’ve added her to the blogroll.

John Quiggin, one of my main role models on the Ozblogosphere, reports that his blog is four years old today. He’s chalked up about 3000 posts and 50,000 comments. He modestly notes “No doubt, much of the content has been ephemeral or … Continue reading →

John Quiggin had an excellent article on social production in Friday’s AFR. His conclusions: First, if monetary returns are weakly, or even negatively correlated with the value of social production, there’s no reason to expect capital markets to do a good … Continue reading →

Eugene Volokh has just put out a paper on academic blogging. The conclusion is unsatisfying, but the article is enjoyable. I especially like his definition of “blegging”, denoting the practice of academics asking their readers for help (blogging+begging).

Apologies for not posting for a couple of days. As Kim W so eloquently put it the other day: life trumps blogging. My brother had a nasty motorbike accident on Tuesday night, so we were up in Sydney with him. … Continue reading →

Guy Rundle says silly things about blogs. Mark Bahnisch responds. John Quiggin and Tim Dunlop pile on. OK folks, nothing more to see here, move along, please….

I’ve added a subscription option to the sidebar, so if you prefer to get your updates in your inbox, feel free to sign up. (Thanks to Tim Dunlop for advice on setting this up.)

I’ve joined the Amazon.com associates program, so if you click on a book link from this site, I’ll get 4% of the royalties. If you’re thinking of stocking a library, feel free to email to discuss commission-sharing opportunities…..