At the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago yesterday, I took part in a roundtable on academic blogs with Tom Schaller, Phil Klinkner, and Dante Scala. A big issue we talked about is whether blogging hurts your prospects for tenure by making people think that you’re not a serious scholar. Unfortunately, they all have tenure, so it looks like I’m the guinea pig right now in the discipline. For more on this issue, see Daniel Drezner’s excellent post on the subject from before he got denied tenure…