Saturday, February 23, 2008

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:
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:
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

2 comments:

~John said...

Blog blah blahg is the story of nick, a naturalized Philadelphian by way of Indiana. The blog recalls his previous life (in Indiana and thereafter). I must say it's cheaper than therapy.

dpm said...

Thanks for posting my blog, Valley Virgin. I was M&T c/o '05 and my name is Danny Maloney. Now working at Google in strategy.