Last year, Kevin Burke put together a list of blogs by Penn students/faculty/staff/alums/etc. It was a great resource, but it's about due for an update.
This list isn't in any order whatsover, but I will try and divide it up between active and inactive ones.
- Active
- Martin Gordon's Blog - Kevin had him pegged as a senior from Miami Beach last year, so I guess he's an alum now?
- 3000 Miles of Virtual Insanity - Ravi Mishra's blog about being between Silicon Valley and Penn.
- Progressive Dispatches - a blog by student government member Brett Thalmann about politics mostly.
- The Un-Wharton - Stuart Stein, a Wharton senior studying marketing and management blogs here
- Akkam's Razor - Staff/Master's student. one of the most active blogs on the list, he posts nearly every day.
- Jeff Weintraub - a political science professor's blog on politics and current events
- {metadatta} - a blog by Physics student Sujit Datta about 'academia, science, or just life in Philadelphia'
- The Spin - the DP's blog about student life and etc. it's a group blog with different writers each semester
- The Buzz - a blog by the sports editors of the DP, about Penn sports teams
- DP Photo Department - a blog by the DP photo department about all things photography related
- Scents - Daniel Drucker, a graduate psych student's blog
- Oikono - a blog by Wharton student Geoffrey (Kok Heng) about economics, poverty, international issues
- Nat Turner - Wharton student/entrepreneur's blog. Has a company in philly called Invite Media. intriguing.
- Earning My Turns - Computer Science Professor and skiing fan Fernando Pereira's blog. He was my professor for CIS120 last semester and showed a picture from one of his skiing trips every day.
- Werblog - Legal studies professor and 'internet expert' Kevin Werbach
- Language Log - very popular language blog, hosted out of a computer in the linguistics department by Mark Liberman. (he taught LING001 last semester I think) Professors from a whole bunch of different schools contribute
- Mr. Swyx - a blog by Huntsman student Shawn Wang
- The Appletonian - Justin Sykes, Wharton senior. He's from Appleton, Wisconsin, which I guess explains the title.
- Penn Press Log - blog about books published by the Penn Press
- MBA Admissions Blog - about the Wharton MBA admissions process
- Dept of Anesthesiology - a blog from Penn Med's Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care
- Vitale Digital Media Lab - A blog with information about this digital media lab in Van Pelt. It's actually a pretty cool place and they have video cameras and AV equipment they lend for free.
- colour my world! - a blog by a Penn student who will be doing banking in Hong Kong this summer
- all that glitters - a tumblr blog by Jessica Gold Haralson, who started Quake, a SAC funded erotica magazine.
- ohbadiah - Nick McAvoy's blog, he used to write on The Spin
- Leighcia - . former Penn student who has apparently decided financial consultant was not the right way to go
- of course I Had a Surprise Birthday Party - Kevin Burke's blog
- Nathan Ensmenger - blog from the undergraduate chair of the Science, Technology & Society major.
- Dueling Tampons - blog by a Penn alum, about other Penn alums and students
- Critical Mass - a blog by English professor Erin O'Connor about academia
- A Beautiful Mess - Engineering student John Tran's personal blog.
- the iv-tini chronicles - Penn senior named Dan, originally from Wisconsin, who will be off to med school next year.
- meta.jane - a rather literary blog by assume I'm pretty sure is a Penn student
- Affabillyty - a blog with a lot of good music, by Billy ___, a sociology major.
- I Am Malek - Malek H. Lewis's blog. Topics for the future include San Francisco, High School Musical, and Gay Videogaming. Purple text on a gray background.
- Blog blah blahg - just a 'gay boy wading in the murky dating pool of Philadelphia.'
- starlighterx - blog by a Penn student who stresses over midterms and likes to comment on New York Times columnists
- Inactive - These were on Kevin's original list but haven't been updated in a long time
- curiousgirl's playground - a blog by Jing Chen, M&T Class of '07. It's on hiatus right now, the last post was in November.
- Cool New Web - a blog by Anton Bernstein. Last update was in November.
Wow there are a lot more than I was expecting to find, and I'm sure there are a lot more that I didn't come across. If you know of any more, please send them along to me.
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