bleckblog: musings of a community college english teacher

The subject line is a bit self-deprecating, but guess I was actually honored to be asked to do what I'm about to write about: serve as one of three judges in the Kairos John Lovas Memorial Blog Award. The winner will be announced this weekend at the Computers and Writing conference. I met John only once, at 4C's (where, along with a rather good-sized group, we at at The Four Seas in Chinatown; it was only fitting once we saw the sign.) in San Francisco but was truly impressed by the man he was, and I guess "is" in many of our minds.

I'm not going to reveal my votes here, but I am going to provide a list of the nominees, several of which I tend to read fairly regularly already and the others of which I was glad to have been introduced to. I've listed them in alphabetical order so as not to give away any hints about my vote. I encourage you to look at those that are new to you. I think you'll enjoy them at least as much as I did.

Those I tend to read already, at least occasionally:

Blogging Pedagogy: http://pedagogy.cwrl.utexas.edu/
Samantha Blackmon: http://joe.english.purdue.edu/blog/
Steve Krause's Official Blog: http://www.stevendkrause.com/academic/blog/
Vitia by Mike Edwards: http://www.vitia.org/

Those that are new to me, which I enjoyed reading and am adding to my blogroll:

blogos by Debra Hawhee: http://dhawhee.blogs.com/d_hawhee/
Digital Digs by Alex Reid: http://alexreid.typepad.com/
Disscombobulatio by Derk Mueller: http://eris.earthwidemoth.com/
Earth Wide Moth by Derek Mueller: http://www.earthwidemoth.com/mt/
Virtualpolitik by Liz Losh: http://virtualpolitik.blogspot.com/

I'll also be adding a few blogs that I discovered, for me that is, for the first time while following the links from the above sites.