Are You Blogging Yet?
John Foley,
Informationweek,
Jul 24, 2002
Good article on blogging as a repository for one's ideas and opinions. A blog is a way to capture and ensure proper credit for your own work. Personally, as this story implies, I think all professors should blog. A professor reads an article, published in a (free online) journal, and reacts: this reaction is typically the source of valuable insight. Combined with some sort of knowledge management and discussion tol, a personal blog is probably more useful to researchers than a slew of academic papers (or so I will find out, I guess, as my newsletter production vastly outpaces my academic paper production).
CRLFIndeed: it's probably a question worth putting to the readers of OLDaily, who have now had time to experience my personal approach to the blogging phenomenon. Would you rather I spent the same amount of time producing a half dozen publishable quality academic papers a year, or would you prefer to see the newsletter continue? Which would be more useful? Which would provide a more lasting contribution to the field? (Comment by clicking on the [Reflect] link).
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