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I'm in the midst of creating a response to the comments left by Stephen Bell from this post, but I thought I'd give readers a crack at it as well. My post should be completed by this weekend. Lately, there have been a lack of comments to LS (probably due to my lack of interesting posts - sorry about that), which is why I am bringing up this topic again...
Posted by Steven at December 9, 2003 08:05 PM | TrackBackI'm pretty much behind Karen's comments on this - especially the last part:
"blogging has its place--but it's not a replacement for other types of information so much as a new kind of resource"
The way I read blogs, I tend to only skim stuff, and the longer the post, the less likely I am to get to the end of it - this is, for me, one of the benefits of a blog+rss - a quick news/views fix.
I don't agree with Steven's assertion that this kind of publication is "not likely to reach a wider audience". It's reached me, and I almost certainly wouldn't have seen this if it had been published (only) in hardcopy.
I also thought I'd take the opportunity to point up (pr)e-print archives as a potential staging post between these areas of publishing. If the paper was submitted to an OAI compliant pre-print archive, we (the interested community) would have the benefit of the article being available immediately, there would be a greater chance of permanence, (even if the article never made it into publication), and the publication process could go on at it's own pace, with the possibility of the post-print being both in print, and online.
Posted by: Owen Stephens on December 10, 2003 02:37 AMI actually didn't know we could comment until I saw this because I've been reading this through bloglines : )
Posted by: Christina K. Pikas on December 11, 2003 06:56 AM