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Over at Inside Higher Ed Scott McLemee asked a bunch of people for the best academic blogs that seem to fly below radar, i.e. elements of the long tail of the academic blogosphere. The whole thing is filled with great recommendations. It's added to my daily blogroll, which is a bit of a problem at this point.

Here is what I told Scott:

Siva Vaidhyanathan, an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia, has published widely on questions involving new media and intellectual property, and not long ago started a blog in conjunction with his book in progress, The Googlization of Everything.

Like Cathy Davidson (above), he points to Liz Losh’s VirtualPolitik: “Liz teaches rhetoric at UC-Irvine. She is one of the smartest people writing about information technology uses among educators and young people. The way she combines rhetorical criticism with technological sophistication is inspiring. I also dig Madisonian.net. It’s a group blog by a bunch of my favorite law professors. It’s sharp and well written, concerned with a broad array of legal issues but centers on intellectual property, mostly.”

Vaidhyanathan also says he is “a big fan” of Feminist Law Professors: “This blog keeps the good ol’ boys in the legal academy honest. Ann Bartow at the University of South Carolina is the editor and leader of the blog. Its contributions are wide ranging. And the writing is first-rate.”

Enjoy the whole list. It's pretty great. Thanks for doing this, Scott!