Blogging, Academic Publishing

This nice post on Knowledge Ecology distinguishes well between blogging and publishing as separate distinct environments. Yes.

But then we do have to ask, why the threat? Why the need to put blogging down?

It's not the "fear of being scooped" (the post's final paragraph) but the disturbing similarity in a number of respects. Having published ten books at this point I can tell you that the thought process I go through in writing a paragraph for an official publication is perhaps to some alarmingly similar to the thought process I go through writing a blog paragraph.

Why else put it down? It wouldn't be a threat if it was totally different.

It's not the fear of being scooped. It's the fear that traditional publication is a slower officially sanctioned paper version of blogging.

Like Zizek on "life 2.0": it shows you that "nature" is life 1.0...