Category: About this blog
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Fifteen years of Academic Blogging: Writing Slowly in Public
Written at the end of my fifteenth year of academic blogging, this post reflects on what it means to write slowly, publicly, and without a growth narrative. It considers the blog as a space for unfinished ideas, deferred reading, and forms of academic work that sit uneasily with faster, more performative platforms.
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10 Years of Blogging
According to a notification I just received, today is my 10-year anniversary on WordPress. Originally, this was little more than a webpage introducing me as an aspiring PhD candidate. At the time, there was some consensus that having an online presence was a good thing, and I thought it might impress the admissions boards at…
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2015 in Review
Highlights of a year of blogging – with comments on Native/Non-Native Speakers of English, feral children, and complexity theory.
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Drunken Aussies, Upgrading to PhD, and the REF
This post was part of a series of posts curating internet content about language, linguistics and higher education between 2013 and 2015. Much of the content of the post is no longer current, but it is retained here for archival reasons. I’ve been in my new post in Graz for a month now, and life…
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How I became a book salesman
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that, in recent posts, whenever I mention a book, I link to Amazon.com rather than Google Books. Here’s what this is all about: Maintaining this blog involves two kinds of investments. The first is an investment in time, for researching, writing and publicising the posts. Your readership, support and kind comments are…
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 51,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 19 sold-out performances for that many…
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Happy Holidays!
Just a note to wish you all a very happy holiday season! The blog will not be updated regularly, during the next couple of week or so, but look out for a retrospective post on Tuesday 30th December. Merry Christmas, to those of you who celebrate it, and a Happy New Year to all!
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Your search terms, revealed
There was a time, not too long ago, when Google would share the search terms (or ‘keywords’) that led readers to this blog. Google now encrypts this data, which means that I can no longer know what brought most of you here, but I can still get some clues from the search terms shared by other…
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Interruption of service
I will be taking a few weeks off blogging in order to prepare for my upcoming viva and a publication with a pressing deadline. During this time, I am afraid I won’t be able to update this blog regularly, although I might comment irregularly on topical issues, as they arise. I will try to respond any comments,…