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December 02, 2004

The scholarly content of blogging

Marginal Revolution: The scholarly content of blogging

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1. A blog post can have a new idea. It is like a very short journal article, with other bloggers/linkers as providing a citation index of sorts. Plus you receive quick and useful feedback.

2. The blogosphere as a whole is the relevant unit of analysis. Don't think that a single post amounts to much of importance. But the blogsophere as a spontaneous order (sometimes) spits out the truth.

3. Blogging is a way to publicize academic work and give it new readers. I call this "blogging as loss leader."

4. Blogging is more like editing a journal or magazine than writing an article.

5. A blog post is like a (very short) public lecture.

6. Blogging is a fundamentally new medium, akin to an epic in serial form, but combining the functions of editor and author. Who doesn't dream of writing an epic?

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