Entries Categorized as 'Scholarly Blogs (Munich 2012)'

Writing blog posts takes too much time, they say…

Date March 9, 2012


I give you my quintessence of the last 2 papers of the Weblogs conference – In a short, but intense paper, Hubertus Kohle presents a series of theses. The first one being that blogging and a peer review is a contradiction in terms. The quality of a blog post, says Kohle, depends on its quick [...]

Blog-ray exposure (Weblogs in Munich Part 3)

Date March 9, 2012


The first afternoon session presents existing blogs. Maybe I will finally understand what makes a good blog. So far, my conclusion was that the traffic on a blog defines its official success. But on the other hand, a scholarly blog with 15 visitors that are “the right ones” is also considered successful. All in all, [...]

Blogportale hier und da (a tribute to Mareike König)

Date March 9, 2012


Ein Thema, das alle Beiträge der Weblog-Konferenz soweit durchzieht, ist wohl die Frage nach der Qualitätssicherung. Wissenschaftliche Standards wie peer-review lassen sich bei Blogs wohl nicht realisieren und ich glaube, genau insofern ist es wichtig, die Funktion der wissenschaftlichen Blogportale zu definieren. Marc Scheloske unterstreicht die Rolle der  Blogportale für den Wissenschaftler, um an das [...]

Scholarly blogging on scholarly blogging Part One

Date March 9, 2012


When I finally managed to get off the hypnotic fixation on the twitterwall, I realised that Cornelius Puschmann was trying to sort out the writing process of scholarly blogs. There are, of course, ways of putting up objective functions of scholarly writing. I find the three main functions he lists (taking notes, publishing results, doing [...]

Beyond Virtual and Real

Date March 8, 2012


So it is raining in Munich, day before the big bloggers’ meeting.  My feelings are mixed. What I thought would be a relatively confidential conference turns out to be an event with over hundred participants – all likely to be listening to the talks and blogging and twitting at the same time; this will be [...]


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