Blogging Clicks With Colleges

In today’s Washington Post (free subscription required). Quoth Kirschenbaum:

It’s the plugged-in version of a long tradition in literature, said wiki user Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland. Hundreds of years ago people kept “commonplace books,” in which they would write down poems, passages from books, and observations to share. Most people think of writing as solitary, he said — “the lonely poet taking long walks in the woods, but there’s another type of writing that’s social and reactive.”

The talented Mr. Bowen gets the nod too.