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  • 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

  • Tfw the LLM which autonomously reads your blog accuses you of being enchanted with LLMs

  • I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to produce an intellectual glossary based on my blog

  • I asked GPT 5.2 deep research to do an analysis of my intellectual style by exploring a sample of my blog posts

  • Why do I write? The question generative AI implicitly poses to us

  • Blogging as letting people into your messy studio

  • An ultra-minimalist blogging platform

  • What happens when GAI becomes a taken for granted feature of our digital infrastructure?

  • How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

  • How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

  • ✍️ How to enjoy writing

  • The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

  • Who actually reads this blog?

  • Chatting in natural language with a massive archive, built from hand-picked trustworthy sources

  • How blogging is different from tweeting

  • A blog post I had completely forgotten writing was quoted in a Nature journal editorial

  • Who is writing this blog?

  • Are we seeing a turn back towards the Open Web?

  • Getting hold of ideas while they are clear: note taking as a creative practice

  • Social Media and Doing a PhD: what do you need to know?

  • What will it mean when blogs are decades old?

  • Some thoughts on intellectual self-archiving

  • The transformation of academic writing and the challenge of ephemera

  • Bloggers and their role in the dissemination of scholarly information

  • The cultural significance of blogging

  • The difference between philosophy and talk about philosophy

  • The Thesis Whisperer: Starting an Academic Blog

  • 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

  • Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures

  • There are many ways to keep a digital research journal other than blogging

  • The Pleasures of Scholarly Blogging

  • call for contributions to the @sociowarwick centre for women and gender blog 

  • blogging as an outboard brain

  • blogging your fieldwork

  • Cory Doctorow’s Philosophy of Blogging

  • Are academics very well-educated journalists who write badly but will work for free?

  • The most popular posts on my blog in 2014

  • Some thoughts on sociological blogging

  • The value of blogging for part-time PhD students

  • Treating ideas with seriousness: @DLittle30 on social media and scholarship

  • The intellectual legitimacy of academic blogging

  • Seven reasons why blogging is academically valuable

  • The future of social science blogging in the UK

  • Solving the problem of finding images for blog posts

  • Lots and lots of blogging

  • Incorporating blogging into an academic CV

  • Using blogs to publish working papers

  • Critical theory and things just happening without anyone doing them

  • Blogging as a “commonplace book”

  • Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

  • Online writing workshop for social science PhDs and ECRs at Warwick

  • Call for contributors to A Book of Blogs #NSMNSS

  • So @soc_imagination is supposedly the 4th most popular Economics blog in the UK

  • Has anyone else’s wordpress spam filter stopped working?

  • Academic scribes, their writing and their unsociability

  • How to be a blogger without having your own blog

  • Patrick Dunleavy on the Republic of Blogs

  • Why Medium could change academic blogging

  • The empiricist army out to rescue ‘proper evidence-based science’ from the theorists

  • Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

  • The start of a broader backlash against academic use of social media?

  • The most popular posts on my blog in 2013

  • Blogging and the 1%-9%-90% rule

  • Why Medium might be pretty great for academics

  • Videocast: Getting started as a Research Blogger

  • Continuous Publishing and Being an Open-Source Academic

  • Sunny Hundal’s views on the future of blogging

  • The History of the UK Blogosphere

  • CelebYouth on Blogging

  • Mark Murphy on Blogging

  • Ben Baumberg on Blogging

  • Howard Becker, Blogging and Phenomenology

  • 17 reasons why you should blog about your research

  • The Beginner’s Guide to Multi-Author Blogging [v1.0]

  • Books, social media and ‘thinking-through-writing’

  • What is ‘academic blogging’?

  • A quick thought about Jiscmail…

  • “Why do you find blogging useful as a researcher?”

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