The Chronicle: 6/6/2003: Scholars Who Blog: "To a remarkable degree, blogs also appear to bring full professors, adjuncts, and students onto a level field. With no evident condescension, senior faculty bloggers routinely link to the political-affairs blog maintained by Matthew Yglesias, a senior at Harvard University. 'Nobody knew my name when we started this,' says Josh Chafetz, a current Rhodes scholar whose OxBlog, written with two fellow Americans at Oxford, has made him a well-known figure among academic bloggers. 'In many ways it really is almost a pure marketplace of ideas. You can build up a readership. You just have to write things that people like.'

'You do see some of the barriers of rank and hierarchy break down,' says the woman who blogs pseudonymously as the Invisible Adjunct. (She granted an interview on the condition that her identity not be revealed.) 'An undergraduate and an adjunct can speak to someone with tenure on a more or less equal footing.'"