Comments on: 5 (higher ed) bloggers that make me think

By: Ken Ronkowitz

Ken Ronkowitz — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:26:40 +0000

You know I felt like Kevin at first too when I was tagged by someone else, but then I had second thoughts after meme #2, which led me to think more about it and blog again about the whole thing at the link I give here.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:33:53 +0000

Ahem — I’d like to thank all the little people I had to step on to make my way to the top…

Thanks, Karine, for including me in the ranks of your top five. I’d certainly include you in mine. Thanks for making me think, often.

Andrew

By: Kevin Guidry

Kevin Guidry — Fri, 18 May 2007 22:00:44 +0000

I like to think that I post about “people who make [me] think” quite often. :)

By: Karine Joly

Karine Joly — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:56:56 +0000

No problem, Kevin. If it wasn’t obvious, I wasn’t exactly fishing for links with this post or I would probably have picked another blog (after all, I’m one of your 2 readers ;-).

I got tagged (a first as I explained in the post) and so I decided to take the opportunity to feature a few of the bloggers I read that are listed on my “Higher Ed Bloggers” page.

Now, I really don’t want you to “violate the integrity of your blog” if posting about people who make you think would lead to this result.

By: Kevin Guidry

Kevin Guidry — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:25:43 +0000

Thanks Karine. I appreciate the vote of confidence and the compliment!

However, I don’t think I’ll make a similar post on my own blog. It simply seems too self-indulgent and off-topic for my own blog. I realize that it may be somewhat offensive and offputting to violate what appears to be a community norm but I don’t want to violate the integrity of my blog by wandering this far off-topic. I could be wrong but I don’t think my readers (both of them – hah!) come to my blog to read about other blogs or my own self-important thoughts about other blogs and bloggers and…

I’m trying really hard to avoid the echo chamber that is naturally encouraged by hypertext and blogging software and culture (blogging memes like this one, pingbacks, blog rolls, etc.). I also am trying to avoid focusing solely on resources and information available only or primarily online; as one who works in a library and works alongside archivists, I am very aware of how much is not and may never be available online.

Thanks again for the mention! I truly appreciate it and I hope you understand why I will probably not be writing a similar post (although I desperately need to update my blog roll and links to other resources).