Blogs as Academic Publishing Media

"Stuart Levine" <[email protected]>
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Regardless of your personal political views, you should 
take a look at Brad DeLong's posting at:

http://www.j-bradford-
delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000391.html

or here:

http://tinyurl.com/37wqu

While perhaps not of the rigor required of an academic 
paper, it is clearly more detailed and in-depth than a 
standard blog piece.  Earlier there had been some 
discussion of whether weblog activity should be given 
weight in making academic promotion decisions.  

The answer is  a clear "maybe," with the qualifier being 
whether the postings, either indiviually or collectively, 
sufficiently deal with professional issues in the in-depth 
manner required.  My sense of the issue is that weblog 
pieces are becoming longer, more detailed, and more 
nuanced.  Whether they're at the point now that they 
should be given weight with respect to academic 
promotion decisions is really not the appropriate 
question.  The appropriate question is whether that 
plateau will be reached sometime and when.  I'm betting 
that the plateau will be reached and will be reached very 
shortly, perhaps with respect to some bloggers in a year 
or two.
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