Interesting find on Crooked Timber. They're talking about the gender gap in the blogging world, which ties in with a class discussion in Writing for the Internet. I wish this post had come a month earlier. An excerpt:
"The fact that there are fewer academic women with blogs shouldn’t be that much of a surprise, given everything else we know about gender issues in academia or elsewhere. The mechanism generating this outcome is harder to pin down. What might it (or they) be?"
Pinning anything down in the blogging world is difficult to do. When I was writing my blogging paper for my independent study, I wanted to make generalizations--needed to do--but instead made the generalization that it is impossible to do so when addressing blogging. Paradoxical.