I’ve added two philosophy blogs that in truth I should have added a while ago.

Sappho’s Breathing
John and Belle Have a Blog

I suspect both of these blogs need no introduction to most readers because you’re already reading them. But better I link them late than never.

Sappho’s Breathing is written by a pseudonymous graduate student who is going on the job market this fall. I wonder whether staying pseudonymous is a good idea in those circumstances.

On the one hand, it’s easy to write something on a blog that pisses off someone enough for it to count against you in a job search. (Some bloggers make this problem worse for themselves by having a rule against deleting old posts. Don’t listen to them!)

On the other hand, my experience is that name recognition counts for a lot in job searches, especially in the early rounds of the search process. (You might think that if one is good enough to be hired by any given university, one would automatically be good enough to get through the first cut of job applications, where the pile of applications is reduced from hundreds to dozens. You’d be wrong.)

Anyway, my best wishes to whomever the author of Sappho’s Breathing is on the job market. If she philosophises as thoughtfully and as clearly as she blogs, she should do well.