What do my sons and I have in common besides our last names? You may well ask, though you probably have not. Well, we’re all bloggers now.
You can catch my son Alan’s blog at the Boston Globe’s website, where he is one of a group of bloggers at The Angle, a new opinion blog at the Globe. I heartily recommend that you add it to your RSS feeds, “like” it on Facebook, email its articles and bestow on it whatever other signs of internet approbation you can devise.
Meanwhile, my son Peter’s group blog, PhD Octopus, has won the prestigious (if I say it’s prestigious, it’s prestigious, at least on this blog) Cliopatra award from the History News Network (unaffiliated, I believe, hope and pray, with the History Channel) for best new blog:
Edgy and substantive, this lively production by five Ph.D. students covers historical theory, public policy in historical context, political art and music, sport history, and just about anything else that they think is worth sustained attention. Contributor “Luce” wrote recently, “I think the posts in this blog are enough to justify the historian’s use of the past to look with fresh and more critical eyes at the present.” But Ph.D. Octopus is much more than commentary: the history is nuanced and the writing leavened by senses of wonder and humor in roughly equal measures.
Pretty good, huh? And this despite the fact that he still starts some of his sentences with “anyways”
Anyways, that makes three, including this backwater blog. But while I may not be writing for a great newspaper, or winning awards, I can lay claim to the longest running blog in the family, a sign of either great endurance or even greater stupidity, if not both in equal measure.
I should add that my nephew Roy, also has a blog that is apparently highly thought of in the computer gaming community. I can’t comment on the substance, since it’s terra incognito to me, but his writing style is lively and fun.
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