Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Sunday, November 25, 2012
R Blogs
A reminder about two good R blogs:
http://rforpublichealth.blogspot.com/
http://diffuseprior.wordpress.com/
Monday, December 20, 2010
Brainiest Blog
Gerard O'Neill uses a new google feature and finds out that this blog is considerably brainier than irisheconomy.ie and some other blogs, or something like that
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Ireland after NAMA Blog
a new irish blog led by geographers. some very good posts so far with excellent data and graphics.
link here
link here
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Blogs
When Denis O'Brien attacked blogging economists during the week, I have a feeling he wasn't thinking about our regular posts about IZA/NBER working papers and developments in microeconometrics. But having said that, it is worth defending why blogging is actual something that some of us bother to do despite the potential reputational risks that can result from too rapid and exposed communication.
For me, blogging serves a good function for communicating to wider audiences including students, colleagues and people outside of research who might actually want to apply some insights coming from the academic literature. It also provides a way of people outside of academia to question what's going on in the literature. Blogs help build communities of interest around the topics being discussed and are a really useful way of keeping people up-to-date with seminars and so on in a way that is non-intrusive. We have debated this here before but I lean toward the view that blogs are starting to have a very important democratic function including in Ireland, more important than during the initial bubble where millions of them proliferated. Some blogs and related forums now like the IrishEconomy and Politics blogs are actually important components of our public sphere and may actually be directly influencing public policy. More specialist blogs like this one I think are starting to provide a model for how research groups can keep information flowing and with very rare exceptions, nothing but good has come out of this.
As Richard Tol said in the comments in the IE blog, blogging is not a substitute for academic work. It is part and parcel of an approach to the development and communication of academic ideas.
For me, blogging serves a good function for communicating to wider audiences including students, colleagues and people outside of research who might actually want to apply some insights coming from the academic literature. It also provides a way of people outside of academia to question what's going on in the literature. Blogs help build communities of interest around the topics being discussed and are a really useful way of keeping people up-to-date with seminars and so on in a way that is non-intrusive. We have debated this here before but I lean toward the view that blogs are starting to have a very important democratic function including in Ireland, more important than during the initial bubble where millions of them proliferated. Some blogs and related forums now like the IrishEconomy and Politics blogs are actually important components of our public sphere and may actually be directly influencing public policy. More specialist blogs like this one I think are starting to provide a model for how research groups can keep information flowing and with very rare exceptions, nothing but good has come out of this.
As Richard Tol said in the comments in the IE blog, blogging is not a substitute for academic work. It is part and parcel of an approach to the development and communication of academic ideas.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Economics Blogs Featured in the Top 100 Blog Chart
I've just been alerted to a site ranking the top 100 blogs. Three economic blogs manage to feature in the rankings:
Freakonomics, Marginal Revolution and Havard Professor Greg Mankiw's blog.
Freakonomics, Marginal Revolution and Havard Professor Greg Mankiw's blog.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Economix Blog
I have only recently started looking at this blog - for people interested in more micro analysis of public policy (like most of the people who read our blog) this is really useful. Contributors include Alan Krueger and Edward Glaeser.
Some really interesting posts include a breakdown of where Obama's stimulus package will be spent . Their posts on higher education (including one from Glaeser on a stimulus package for low-skilled workers) are also really good. Glaeser's post urging governments to think very carefully about value for money in job creation makes an obvious but important point.
Some really interesting posts include a breakdown of where Obama's stimulus package will be spent . Their posts on higher education (including one from Glaeser on a stimulus package for low-skilled workers) are also really good. Glaeser's post urging governments to think very carefully about value for money in job creation makes an obvious but important point.
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