[1]This week, John Sides [2] from The Monkey Cage [3] joins us for a discussion about podcasting, blogging, and political blogs. The show is split into four segments: A discussion of podcasting and public social science inspired by John's post [4] on political science podcasts. The history of The Monkey Cage and a discussion of the perception of blogs by academics. A discussion of political blogs sparked by John's article [5] on the subject. How blogging can actually help with academic research and teaching. Download Improv #16 [6] [1] https://thesocietypages.org/improv/files/2010/10/album-art-ep16.png [2] http://home.gwu.edu/~jsides/ [3] http://www.themonkeycage.org/ [4] http://www.themonkeycage.org/2010/09/polisci_podcasts.html [5] http://home.gwu.edu/~jsides/blogs.pdf [6] http://mediamill.cla.umn.edu/mediamill/download.php.mp3?orig=65243.mp3