Matt Burton’s dissertation advances a compelling proposition: blogs are not peripheral ephemera but infrastructures of scholarly communication, enabling digital humanities communities to think, argue, affiliate, and legitimate themselves beyond the formal architectures of journals and monographs. Analysing 106,804 posts from 396 digital humanities blogs, Burton demonstrates that the Open Web renders formerly private or fugitive academic interaction visible at scale, thereby transforming the classic “invisible college” into an (in)visible college: informal, networked, public, and computationally observable . The study’s methodological significance lies in its fusion of topic modelling and trace ethnography, through which large-scale textual patterns are interpreted without surrendering their cultural specificity. Its development of four categories—quasi-academic, para-academic, meta-academic, and extra-academic—clarifies how blogs host scholarly value that may never enter conventional publication channels. A particularly illuminating case is digital humanities itself, whose practitioners use blogs not merely to disseminate findings but to negotiate identity, debate methods, announce projects, document labour, and sustain community. Thus, blogging becomes both communicative medium and sociotechnical substrate: a space where scholarly practice is made durable through links, posts, archives, comments, and circulation. Burton’s conclusion is therefore decisive: to understand contemporary scholarship, one must examine not only polished outputs but also the infrastructural traces through which intellectual communities become visible, contestable, and collectively maintained.