How is it that all the PIs (Tara, PZ, Orac et al.), various grad students, post-docs, etc. find time to fulfill their primary objectives (day jobs) and blog so prolifically?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I have a slightly more serious response to this than many of my co-bloggers<\/a>, simply because I half expect the issue to come up at my tenure review in the fall.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I don’t make any real effort to hide my blog (obviousy), but I also don’t advertise it on campus. I know a few of my students are aware of its existence, and a few guys in another department read it, but I don’t think any of my immediate colleagues know about it (or at least, none of them have mentioned it to me).<\/p>\n I haven’t talked about blogging at work, becuase I’m a little worried that blogging is hazardous to academic health<\/a>. It’s an outside activity that isn’t teaching or research, and thus might be seen as frivolous. Which is why I at least half expect to have to defend my blogging practices at tenure time– I don’t plan to bring it up, but somebody involved will probably check me out on Google.<\/p>\n So, my answer to this week’s question is basically a defense: I manage to blog as I do because this is my hobby. The time I spend on blogging is time that I would otherwise spend doing something else to decompress from my primary activities. I write posts in the morning before work, over lunch, or in the evening after I’m done with other things, and I schedule them to appear during the day, when I’m at work.<\/p>\n The total time spent actively blogging is probably less than two hours a day. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone in academia who doesn’t spend two hours a day doing something that isn’t research-related. Some people garden, some people knit, some people refinish antiques– I publish stuff on the Internet. If I wasn’t doing this, I’d be doing something else to relax– reading novels, or watching tv.<\/p>\n Of course, you’ll also notice that I’m not all that<\/strong> prolific, relative to many of my co-bloggers… I really don’t know how they do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week’s Ask a ScienceBlogger question deals with blogging itself, and not so much with science: How is it that all the PIs (Tara, PZ, Orac et al.), various grad students, post-docs, etc. find time to fulfill their primary objectives (day jobs) and blog so prolifically? I have a slightly more serious response to this… Continue reading Ask a ScienceBlogger: This IS My Hobby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask_a_scienceblogger","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\"](\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-bc34b702798f01b10409f7481ac9dc21-link_donorschoose_small.gif\")
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