The Penn Blogosphere Expands

Albert Sun, a Penn sophomore who blogs at Albertgate provided an updated listing of the known Penn-related blogs, building on Kevin Burke's original list from last year.

I was very happy to see the updated list that included some blogs that I hadn't seen before. Most of the blogs I already read regularly and are on my blogroll.

I decided I would group the blogs in categories and clusters that seem to be connected online through mutual links or blog mentions. (If you have suggestions on categories or if I missed any blogs, please let me know)

Penn Political Blogs:

• Akkam's Razor - Staff/Master's student. one of the most active blogs on the list, he posts nearly every day.
• Progressive Dispatches - a blog by former student government member Brett Thalmann about politics mostly.
• The Appletonian - Justin Sykes, Wharton senior. He's from Appleton, Wisconsin, which I guess explains the title.
• the iv-tini chronicles - Penn senior named Dan, originally from Wisconsin, who will be off to med school next year.
• Penn Democrats - Official blog of the Penn Democrats
  

Penn Alums:

• Martin Gordon's Blog - Penn alum, Class of 2007
  
• Dueling Tampons - blog by Penn alum Matt Rosler, about other Penn alums and students in the arts
  
• Valley Virgin - Blog by Penn grad Danny Maloney, M&T '05 now working at Google in strategy.
  
• Essential Luxuries - Jean Hsu's blog about post-Penn life in New York City
• ryanpedia - Ryan Hayward's blog, class of 2007
  

Tech/Entrepreneurial:

• 3000 Miles of Virtual Insanity - Ravi Mishra's blog about being between Silicon Valley and Penn.
• The Un-Wharton - Stuart Stein, a Wharton senior studying marketing and management blogs here
• Nat Turner - Wharton student/entrepreneur's blog. Has a company in philly called Invite Media. intriguing.
• Jason Toff - Penn senior and entrepreneur who founded Penndrinks.com
• Jack Abraham - Insights of a young tech entrepreneur who recently graduated early to work on his start-up.
  

Penn Professors:

• Jeff Weintraub - a political science professor's blog on politics and current events
• Earning My Turns - Computer Science Professor and skiing fan Fernando Pereira's blog. He was my professor for CIS120 last semester and showed a picture from one of his skiing trips every day.
• Werblog - Legal studies professor and 'internet expert' Kevin Werbach
• Language Log - very popular language blog, hosted out of a computer in the linguistics department by Mark Liberman. (he taught LING001 last semester I think) Professors from a whole bunch of different schools contribute
• Dept of Anesthesiology - a blog from Penn Med's Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care
• Nathan Ensmenger - blog from the undergraduate chair of the Science, Technology & Society major.
• Critical Mass - a blog by English professor Erin O'Connor about academia

Penn Administrative blogs:

• Outlines - Penn LGBT Center's blog
• Faithful Philly Forum - Penn's Christian Association's blog
  
• Vitale Digital Media Lab - A blog with information about this digital media lab in Van Pelt. It's actually a pretty cool place and they have video cameras and AV equipment they lend for free.
• Penn Press Log - blog about books published by the Penn Press
• MBA Admissions Blog - about the Wharton MBA admissions process
• Knowledge@Wharton - Wharton's attempt to "share its intellectual capital". A truly great resource
  

Cluster 1:

• Affabillyty - a blog with a lot of good music, by Billy ___, a sociology major.
• I Am Malek - Malek H. Lewis's blog. Topics for the future include San Francisco, High School Musical, and Gay Videogaming. Purple text on a gray background.
• A Beautiful Mess - Engineering student John Tran's personal blog.
• meta.jane - a rather literary blog by a Penn senior named Jane
  
• the iv-tini chronicles - Penn senior named Dan, originally from Wisconsin, who will be off to med school next year.
• Progressive Dispatches - a blog by student government member Brett Thalmann about politics mostly.

Cluster 2:

• ohbadiah - Nick McAvoy's blog, he used to write on The Spin
• Leighcia - . former Penn student who has apparently decided financial consultant was not the right way to go
• starlighterx - blog by a Penn student who stresses over midterms and likes to comment on New York Times columnists
• The Spin - the DP's blog about student life and etc. it's a group blog with different writers each semester

Other:

• Vocab 101 - Hayling Price's blog about music, his time abroad and more
  
• Oikono - a blog by Wharton student Geoffrey (Kok Heng) about economics, poverty, international issues
• colour my world! - a blog by a Penn student who will be doing banking in Hong Kong this summer
• Mr. Swyx - a blog by Huntsman student Shawn Wang
• {metadatta} - a blog by Physics student Sujit Datta about 'academia, science, or just life in Philadelphia'
• The Buzz - a blog by the sports editors of the DP, about Penn sports teams
• DP Photo Department - a blog by the DP photo department about all things photography related
• Scents - Daniel Drucker, a graduate psych student's blog
• all that glitters - a tumblr blog by Jessica Gold Haralson, who started Quake, a SAC funded erotica magazine.
• I Had a Surprise Birthday Party - Kevin Burke's blog

Not sure if Penn-related:

• Blog blah blahg - just a 'gay boy wading in the murky dating pool of Philadelphia.'

Please let me know of any corrections or additions.

~BT