I see from the FeedBurner stats that a number of people are actually subscribed to the JournalFlood RSS feed.
Strangely I never expected that to actually happen, and so I've possibly been annoying the hell out of people. You see I'm in the habit of posting my drafts up to the site and then proofreading them once posted, making a series of edit reposts from my client as I go.
I'm not sure what this translates into for the subscriber, but I have a horrible feeling it might mean people have been getting four or five versions of each post, all slightly different.
If this is the case then accept my apologies. And I'll try and stop doing it. And if anyone wants to make any other complaints or suggestions, this would be the post to attach them to. Cheers.
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8/18/08
7/29/08
Quick thoughts on syndication.
I'm planning on putting together a post some time looking at the major journal publishers and their online alert setups. In the meantime here are some quick thoughts.
Email alerts make sense for those select few publications which you follow closely. But if your interest is only peripheral or intermittent then having abstracts or TOCs appear in your inbox is a nuisance.
RSS feeds scale much less annoyingly, provided you have a good reader. But if you're not using RSS already then it can be a non-trivial change to your workflow, and one that doesn't always stick. In both cases the initial setup is something of a pain.
What is needed is a way to get a general sense of what is out there in the academic aether without being directly pestered by (sometimes screwy) subscriptions to 30+ publications.
This blog is an attempt at one sort of a solution. Up the ladder of reliability (and down that of belligerence) is this page from Routledge's 'sociology arena'. This seems an easy and simple solution (there's no signup or setup and I assume it's just a preset RSS aggregator). All you'd have to do is bookmark it (and tag it) and you can get an occasional, hassle free picture of what distant but allied weirdos are writing about.
Anyway, I'll come back to all this. (Hopefully with a link to a nice aggregator that covers all the major publishers. Possibly via Gregarius...).
Email alerts make sense for those select few publications which you follow closely. But if your interest is only peripheral or intermittent then having abstracts or TOCs appear in your inbox is a nuisance.
RSS feeds scale much less annoyingly, provided you have a good reader. But if you're not using RSS already then it can be a non-trivial change to your workflow, and one that doesn't always stick. In both cases the initial setup is something of a pain.
What is needed is a way to get a general sense of what is out there in the academic aether without being directly pestered by (sometimes screwy) subscriptions to 30+ publications.
This blog is an attempt at one sort of a solution. Up the ladder of reliability (and down that of belligerence) is this page from Routledge's 'sociology arena'. This seems an easy and simple solution (there's no signup or setup and I assume it's just a preset RSS aggregator). All you'd have to do is bookmark it (and tag it) and you can get an occasional, hassle free picture of what distant but allied weirdos are writing about.
Anyway, I'll come back to all this. (Hopefully with a link to a nice aggregator that covers all the major publishers. Possibly via Gregarius...).
6/22/08
What is this?
This blog will be a running commentary on academic journals in sociology and closely related disciplines. As they are published I will provide a summary of what's inside-you will be able to come to this site, skim a few posts, and know roughly what's being talked about. Both tree and online journals will be covered, with the circle expanding as interest dictates. The goal is to balance a big-picture overview of the contents of the top tier journals with more detailed dips into interesting but easily missed publications or contributions. Feel free to get in touch if you have suggestions, requests or offers of collaboration.
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