tech ronin writes the truth: "All of a sudden there's this revolutionary possibility that we can get a ten-fold increase in communication around all this, and we turn it down for small-minded reasons? OK, maybe everyone isn't meant to be a blogger but academics seem like naturals. [...] I suspect that academia might become borderline irrelevant or even somewhat obsolete if its academicians stay cloistered away with their academic journals. Don't get me wrong, this is a very good topic and worth further exploration of all sides of the issue. I'm just coming down hard on the side of academic blogging. We need you." See additionally "Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research" by Sébastian Paquet in English or French. My usual two cents: Furthermore weblogs are an invaluable opportunity for social/cultural anthropologists who do participant observation among online communities. By means of a weblog the fieldnotes, the field-diary, or parts of it, can immediately made accessible to the members of the observed community. Reactions and comments can be gathered while the participant observation is still under way, and afterwards of course, too. A demand which resulted from the discourse on fieldwork, but more often than not could not be realized. via many2many

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