Science in the Web Age: Joint Efforts
Declan Butler,
Nature,
Dec 06, 2005
Writing in Nature, Declan Butler wonders why more scientists don't blog. "many researchers still see publications in the formal scientific literature as 'the' means of scientific communication... for most scientists and academics, blogs and wikis remain unattractive distractions from their real work. Many consider them an online version of coffee-room chatter, background noise that goes against the very ethos of heavily filtered scholarly information." But blogging not only brings immediacy, it can bring readership and relevance. "If someone told me that I could show up at a lecture hall every day and deliver a short opinion, and that 1,500 people would show up to hear me, I'd be pretty satisfied - 1,500 is twice the subscription of many speciality journals." Via Richard Marsden.
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