In Overcoming Bias, thoughts on whether blogs should count towards academic credentials. Good point about getting press via blogs, but not necessarily good research. I think tenure should keep good press in mind (if students like you, they're more likely to apply), but being a professor is really about just doing research (unfortunately... teaching is a far second for quite a few profs, sadly). I'm not sure blogs should be highly considered in academic credentials, though I think it would be good to make note of a researcher's blog whenever possible. Though not as rigorous as peer-reviewed journals, you can get some interesting, off the cuff ideas via blogs which can contribute to your own research. To be fair, I think blogs are meant to be somewhat off the cuff. It's a good forum for discussion, but nothing particularly rigorous. Researchers just need to weigh whether the lack of rigor is worth the good press and the little light bulbs.
(As you can tell by my notable absence last week, it wasn't worth it for me... big end-of-semester paper due...)
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