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Blogging for fame and fortune |
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Saturday, 30 December 2006 |
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There are plenty of reasons for academics to get involved with blogging, many of which have graced the posts of BlogScholar over the past year. Fame and celebrity tends to be near the bottom of the list but all that may be about to change. There was that Deloitte report we blogged on that spoke of superpower professors lecturing to million online, the Google bombing attempt to promote an independent Egyptian voice, and of course the academic who was chosen to follow the Dixie Chicks around on tour. But the fleeting footprints in the sand of blogging could become more like imprints on Hollywood Boulevard. Just ask Tyler Cowen. Or the growing trends in research: “Blogs are having a major impact on research, since they allow sharing of interim results, provisional findings, new but untested ideas, and many of the ingredients of creative thinking”. If you want to get started on your own celebrity blogging life maybe you should start by investing sometime looking at the thoughts of others in return for a few furtive glances at your own work.
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