September 9, 2002

Weblogged Conversation: Slow Academic Adoption of Weblogs

Christian Crumlish

Seb closes the loop on an interesting multi-weblog conversation about why weblogs have not (yet?) been widely adoped by academics as a research tool:

Stephen over at Blogging Alone mentions Sébastien Paquet's reasons why blogging has failed to become a widely accepted research tool among academia. I disagree with nearly all of these reasons. Below is the list of reasons and my thoughts based on my own experiences:

Follow the link to Seb's summary to get the whole flow of the dialogue.

Posted by xian at September 9, 2002 8:15 AM
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