Who still blogs? I guess I do… If nothing else to share things that seem interesting, which appears to be a strategy a few people employ. I can see from various WordPress subscriptions that I have that some colleagues still do. Maybe the moment passed (some time ago?!) but I can’t help feeling that there is still something worthwhile in writing in this sort of format – a sort of thinking out loud. My colleague Clive Barnett used to do this fantastically well on his site Pop Theory, which I am hopeful we will get back available online soon.
My question is an honest one though – who is blogging? Or writing a newsletter, which seems to have been a thing, but similarly died down a bit(?) I want to read ‘academic’ blogs or newsletters (or anything like that!) again, I think. Please get in touch with any recommendations.
“Geography” blogs that I currently follow (and people have posted to in the last 6 months) are:
- Simon Cook – Jographies
- Kevin Cox
- Tim Cresswell
- Data Stories (a research project blog)
- Eye on the World (NUIM geography blog)
- Geography Directions
- Stuart Elden
- Adrian Ivakhiv – Immanence
- Just Rural Futures
- Innes Keighren – On the archival trail of William Macintosh
- Angela Last
- Colin McFarlane – City Fragment
- Oli Mould – taCity
- Gillian Rose
- Mediapolis (more a journal but it is formatted a bit like a blog..?)
- Miranda Ward
As you can see there’s a few on substack now , which is an interesting platform – but I am not totally sure about (mostly due to the model of subscription), where once it was almost all WordPress. While I have focused on ‘geographers’ here that’s only because I had a list and I mostly rely on email subscriptions and the WordPress app, I used to use an RSS reader but fell out of the habit.
Who/what am I missing? Whose ‘blog’ or newsletter do you read that you enjoy? Please let me know!
