By Juliana Adelman
Who says cyberspace is lonely? On behalf of Pue’s I want to thank all the bloggers and would-be bloggers who joined us for a day of discussion on the present and future of blogging in the humanities. It was great to put faces to blogs, to meet new people and generally talk about something a bit different than the usual history conference. I was amazed at just how much discussion was possible. We took a bit of a risk by leaving so much ’empty’ space in the programme, but it really paid off. I think I can speak for all of us at Pue’s in saying we learned a tremendous amount and we haven’t exhausted the possibilties yet. I supppose it’s very academic to think that blogs need a theoretical framework and a critical discourse, but even those outside academia had plenty to contribute to these topics. The blogs represented not just history, but art, literature and geography as well. Read More