THE BLOGGING JOURNALIST

Capital Times Profiles Blogging Economist Menzie Chinn

On December 5, 2009, Mike Ivey at The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, posted a profile on Professor Menzie Chinn, one of the bloggers behind “Econbrowser.” The other co-author is economist James Hamilton of the University of California-San Diego.

As Ivey notes, Econbrowser “was listed recently among the top 25 economic blogs by the Wall Street Journal. It’s a list that includes blogs from media stars like Paul Krugman of the New York Times and Justin Fox of Time magazine,” Ivey said.

If you want to read more about the blogging economist, please see “Kudos for UW-Madison blogger.”

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Can Blogging Promote Literacy?

The Independent of London reported December 3, 2009, that, the National Literacy Trust today published a study “which has found that although nearly half of all UK schoolchildren claim writing is "boring", blogging and social networking greatly improve their attitudes and make them much more confident about their writing skills.”See “Don't knock blogging – it's the answer to our literacy problems.” According to The Independent:

“The research, which examined the attitudes of 3,000 children in England and Scotland towards writing, found that 61 per cent of those who keep a blog and 56 per cent of those who are on social network sites feel they are good or very good at writing, compared with only 47 per cent of those who don't engage with text online.

The report said, “Pupils who are active online also tend to write more in traditional forms such as short stories, letters, diaries or song lyrics.”

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