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Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’

My thanks to J. Bradford DeLong for raising this piece from his archives. It perfectly outlines what I enjoy about reading blogs, as well as how enriching these first forays into wielding the tool called a blog have been.

I am greedy. I want more. I would like a larger college, [DeLong is a USC Berkeley Econ. Professor] an invisible college, of more people to talk to, pointing me to more interesting things. People whose views and opinions I can react to, and who will react to my reasoned and well-thought-out opinions, and to my unreasoned and off-the-cuff ones as well. It would be really nice to have Paul Krugman three doors down, so I could bump into him occasionally and ask, “Hey, Paul, what do you think of…” Aggressive younger people interested in public policy and public finance would be excellent. Berkeley is deficient in not having enough right-wingers; a healthy college has a well-diversified intellectual portfolio. The political scientists are too far away to run into by accident — somebody like Dan Drezner would be nice to have around (even if he does get incidence wrong sometimes). Over the past three years, with the arrival of Web logging, I have been able to add such people to those I bump into — in a virtual sense — every week. My invisible college is paradise squared…

While I am by no means an academic (hell, I did not know who Dan Drezner was, but I can read his blog thanks to the above post) the sentiment rings true. A very Merry to all.

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