It is with great pleasure that I announce the launch of BlogScholar (www.blogscholar.com)!
Blogscholar is a brand new non-profit website designed to serve as a community for academic bloggers. It currently includes a directory of academic blogs, news and polls about the challenges and opportunities of academic blogging, and RSS Newsfeeds by topic from the likes of Noam Chmosky, Larry Lessig, and Joi Ito.
Built with Mambo open source software, the community is designed to be shaped by its users. The launch of Blogscholar as a hub of activity for academic blogging precedes the September, 2005 launch of my PhD research portal Netmodern (The Rebirth of the Sociological Imagination).
So visit to see what's happening in the world of academic blogging or sample blogs by academics generally about academic topics. If you are currently a teacher or student set up an account to add your blog to the directory, read/write comments and contribute news.
After six days of strenuous development from the conception of the idea to the implementation of the site this is a quiet launch, posted here on the perimeter of the blogosphere.
I dedicate the launch of this site to my parents, Jorn and Shirley, both educators, who fostered a healthy respect for learning and sharing knowledge in our house even before I can remember. :-)
