[14 years ago this week, this blog was born. For this year’s anniversary series, I wanted to highlight a handful of the types of posts that have kept me blogging for nearly a decade and a half now. Leading up to some special weekend tributes!]
If you
click on the tab
for Crowd-Sourced Posts in the list of “Labels” to the right on the blog’s homepage,
you’ll notice that there haven’t been any in 2024 and were only four each in
2023 and 2022, compared to the average of about ten each year prior to that. There
are all kinds of reasons for that shift, including the growth of my
#ScholarSunday threads (first on Twitter, now on their own newsletter) which have
become a powerful form of crowd-sourcing in their own right (both in terms of
sharing others’ voices and because many of the things I feature there have been
shared with me). But even if I never feature another crowd-sourced post—and I
hope and believe I will, at the very least for next year’s non-favorites
series!—I don’t think I can overstate how much those posts have meant to me
over the course of my blogging career. Scholarly blogging, like most every
other part of scholarly work, can feel individual and isolated at times; some degree
of that is likely inevitable, but I’ve still spent my whole career seeking ways
and places to challenge that feeling and offer a communal alternative. I love
that my blog has featured precisely such an alternative, and hope it always
feels like it can.
Tribute
post this weekend,
Ben
PS. Give
me a great anniversary present and say hi in comments, please!
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