tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post1654626935075434009..comments2024-03-24T09:13:28.758+00:00Comments on The Plashing Vole: Blogging: my route to the top?The Plashing Volehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-53080496107033078062012-05-06T01:10:34.630+01:002012-05-06T01:10:34.630+01:00Oddly, given the way I end up speaking out about a...Oddly, given the way I end up speaking out about academic blogging, I don't consider my own blog an academic blog. I label myself "an academic who blogs." Like you, I appreciate the distance between work and my blog, except I think in my case the distance is less, or more occasional.<br /><br />I agree that blogging isn't itself "research." But it can be closely related to research, it can advance research, it can involve collaboration of the kind that is fostered through other venues such as conferences, etc. So institutions will increasingly be challenged to fit it into some kind of framework, but also, given the enormous variation among blogs themselves (more, don't you think, than between specialized academic monographs, which at least all look and, sadly, sound more or less the same) there's no way to standardize evaluation, I think. Peer review outsources the labor of evaluation from a committee, but I really don't see how there's any way to grasp the nature or quality of an individual blog except to tangle with it individually.<br /><br />I have a book with my name on it on my shelves. Ironically, the article that anticipated its central findings is cited far more often than it is. But the book has a very nice cover!Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.com