El Oso: Pitching Outside the Strike Zone, Part IV

I recently mentioned a controversy over academic blogging spawned by Tribble's critique of academics who blog. One of the better posts exploring the implications of Tribble's essay is by El Oso:

Pitching Outside the Strike Zone, Part IV

Some other commentators on this subject:

Savage Minds: Insider/Outsider Troubles

Apophenia: Bloggers Need Not Apply

Capital Hacks: Job Searching With a Blog

Bitch Ph.D.: This Right Here Is Why I Don't Blog Under My Real Name

One Man's Opinion: Anti-Blogging in Academia

Planned Obsolescence: Bloggers Need Not Apply

Lawyers, Guns and Markets: Blogs and the Market

Daniel W. Drezner: Grad Students-No Blogs Allowed

Chaz Blogs: "As a hiring manager for a recent project ..."

Academic Coach: Going Too Far ... Disacknowledgements cont.," (about another fascinating controversy that leads to a mention of Tribble's article)

George's Employment Blawg: Blogger's Disadvantaged in the Hiring Process

Bar Blog: Bloggers Need Not Apply
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What I think is most important and should not be missed in this controversy is that blogs, and the Internet in general, are a threat to the monopoly that the Ivory Tower has long had on knowledge production. Never have I seen so much direct, concentrated effort applied to understanding, interpreting and communicating meaning associated with texts/images, social life and political events than I do in the blogosphere. This is what threatens needling bureaucrats like Ivan Tribble...

Bloggers I salute you!