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...logs, which means they count for much when adding up numbers of individual bloggers. The gender of bloggers in the military historioblogosphere. The number of female bloggers is still only 10%, but at least is nearly double the proportion of six months earlier. Again, this is largely because of the rise of institutional blogs: the majority of women who blog on military history now do so as part of a group blog (7) and not on their own (3). The per...

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...were famous ... Brett Holman Heath: Thanks, squire. Alan: The real question is will you remember that you know me when I'm famous… Rhonda Gilbreath Congrats on becoming a blog member. Having a schedule and a topic will make it easier for you to blog and to do a good blog. We all look forward to your blogs and welcome you to being a regular blogger here. Excellent accomplishment. It always feels good when you accomplish something that you always w...

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...he point of view of marketing, I suppose. I've noticed that the Cliopatria blogroll (still the biggest listing of history blogs) has always listed only the AWM homepage, rather than having links to each individual AWM blog. I suppose it was too much trouble for them to list them all, especially given that they would come and go as exhibitions opened and closed. So you may wish to inform them of your new group blog! BTW, Sydney has been a popular t...

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...eing hosting the History Carnival, and being asked to help found the group blog Revise and Dissent. I'd blog even if nobody read what I wrote, but I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the trouble to comment, especially Chris Williams and Alex for their support in the early days. Bonus! factoids: In total, 144 posts and 324 comments (including trackbacks and pingbacks). Most visited post: LaTeX: the pain, the pleasure. Most commented post: ditt...

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...rens into washing machines and a possible public air raid shelter in Norbury. Anyone who is interested in Airminded's subject matter will likely find it worth their while to read The Blogger will always get through... too, so do yourself a favour and check it out! PS Bonus points for the blog's name ... very punny indeed....

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...that the AWM's bloggers haven't tried to hook into the rest of the historioblogosphere -- there are no links to other blogs in their sidebars or posts (that I could see anyway). Whether this is by design or by accident I can't say -- I can see why they'd want to focus on their own content -- but I think they're missing out on promotional opportunities by neglecting the social networking aspect of blogging. Hopefully a bit of linkage in their direc...

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...But even if that happens it's something I can live with. Airminded · Post-blogging 1940: re-introduction [...] forget to keep reading the other 1940 post-blogging efforts, as well as my 1940 aggregation [...] Brett Holman Okay, seeing as the Battle-specific post-blogs have stopped I'm going to stop updating this post too and unstick it from the front page. Updates will still flow through the aggregator for now. Rick Looking at the memorial to tho...

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...n War Memorial, which as I noted in the last state of the military historioblogosphere, has a new group (or group-of-groups) blog. Very airminded too -- the latest post is about the restoration of a German fighter from the First World War. And even more airminded is Spitfire Site News, which is all about a single type of aeroplane -- what else but the Supermarine Spitfire? One day, there'll be a blog devoted to the Yeoman Cropmaster, and then the...

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...tself is one of those things, which ultimately is more important than your blog. Time spent writing blog posts is time that could be used for thesis research or writing, after all. But since I've found (as noted above) that writing for the blog helps with the thesis itself, I don't worry too much about this. Who? I've said before that I'd still blog even if nobody read it or commented. But it's obviously better if somebody does (particularly in te...