Following up on the Chronicle of Higher Education symposium Blog P.I. summarized on Saturday, participating blog Sivacracy (but not participating blogger Siva Vaidhyanathan) zings fellow participanting blog Instapundit good on the lacking substance of many an Insta-post. It doesn’t qualify as “shortering,” but it is pithy enough to be unsummarizable. Zingee Glenn Reynolds is actually on vacation this week, so the post’s author, Univ. of SC prof Ann Bartow, will actually see a rising word-to-link count thanks to his guest bloggers over the next few days. Which may only reinforce her point.
In Reynolds’ defense, dashed-off posts may be the unavoidable result of “instant punditry.” Still, “SURELY THE END TIMES ARE UPON US: Ana Marie Cox is now Time.com’s Washington Editor” hardly qualifies as “punditry.” And if Reynolds’ law school dean truly thinks his blog counts as “scholarship,” let alone legal scholarship, the academy might have bigger problems than mere blogging.
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