Historical Musings

I wish I had discovered this earlier.  This year's annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia had a round table session entitled "Were All the World a Blog: History Bloggers and History Blogging."  Blogging is still a very fresh medium that has a long way to go before any major readership develops.  However, it appears that academic history blogs (and, I would assume, many other academic disciplines) are embracing the new medium as a research tool (i.e., allowing the free flow of ideas and opinions, organizing information for books, etc.).  You can read an introduction to academic history blogs here, and an article on the virtues of blogging here by blogger Rebecca Goetz.