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title: "Academic Breakfast: Lessons, Or A Blog On Blogs"
description: A blog about another blog and some lessons and best practices for blogging.
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# [Academic Breakfast: Lessons, Or A Blog On Blogs](https://www.inboxcommunications.com/blog/academic-breakfast-lessons-or-a-blog-on-blogs)

 Written by [Fateema Sayani](https://www.inboxcommunications.com/blog/author/fateema-sayani) | Jun 11, 2014

## A Meta Blog? 

 

[This ](http://academic-breakfast.tumblr.com)new Tumblr site, called "Academic Breakfast" sounds like shorthand for terribly banal online content. When someone wants to criticize our ever-connected digital life, they usually complain about how pedestrian some of the content is on social networks and blogs. They'll say something like, "Gee, do I really need to see what Tommy from my kindergarten class has for lunch?" And, no, it likely won't add much to your life to see food pics from your grade-school besties. However, this new blog has much to offer in terms of insight from the seemingly banal.

 

Scroll through to get a glimpse of what academics eat for breakfast. Each egghead snaps a picture of their meal, shares their academic credentials and a line or two about their research and their food philosophy. The fun is aligning people's eating habits with their outlook and research. Are you surprised that a sociologist eats granola? Check out the kitchen of that PhD student. Sheesh, student life isn't exactly living large, is it? All to say, there's a lot more to read into then what's offered in the captions, which makes this such a great blog.

 

Lucas Crawford, a faculty member at Simon Fraser University, created the blog to “remind ourselves that eating is a public matter,” as well as to showcase differences in eating habits across faculty members of different ranks, fields, gender and region. He told [Academica Group](http://academica.ca) that the site is intended to “produce an alternative aesthetic representation of academic life” while “demystifying academia by entering its intimate spaces and nourishing scenes.”

 

It's also a great format to take inspiration from because it follows some blogging [best practices](https://www.inboxcommunications.com/blogs/quick-guide-to-blogging?hsLang=en-us).

 

Dear Professor:

 

Here are some observations we took from this blog. Let this be a lesson!

- The posts are short and digestible (hee, hee, a pun! Digestible!)
- The posts are visually appealing (which is key in our [visual culture](https://www.inboxcommunications.com/blog/on-photography-getting-the-right-look-for-your-marketing?hsLang=en-us)).
- The blog just begs for interaction. Are you an academic? Go ahead and submit your morning routine!

 

We give this blog the #InboxHighFive! Give it a read and give a few moments to think both about your breakfast and about how to dust off your blog for more appeal. 

 

 

 

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