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Today, I learned of a new Web publication affiliated with my department, Radio-TV-Film. CinemaTexas Notes is a compilation of movie writeups done by graduate students in the 1970s and 80s when CinemaTexas was a film series presenting movies from the past for re-examination. It dissolved when the introduction of VCRs took film buffs out of the theater and onto the sofa, but this site should provide an interesting resource to movie geeks.

I'm like totally tardy in blogging Flow a new publication from the department that launched in October. Flow is an online journal-like site where esteemed media studies scholars post short articles about TV and other forms of electronic media. It falls somewhere between a journal and a group blog, since its not peer-reviewed - only edited by a crack team of grad students - and provides comments functionality for immediate reader responses.

Which, for me, begs the question, "Where are all the media studies blogs?" I see mad Rhetoric blogs and some information studies blogs, but I don't see a lot blogs from media studies folks. Granted, a lot of universities don't have dedicated media studies departments, and even a lot of film departments concentrate almost exclusively on film, so there may just not that many of us out there. But, but, blogs are media, right? So where are the media studies blogs?