Advancing science through conversations: Bridging the gap between blogs and the academy
… We offer suggestions for improving upon the traditionally used blog platform to make it
more palatable to institutional hosts and more trustworthy to readers; creating mechanisms
for institutions to provide appropriate (but not stifling) oversight to blogs and to facilitate high-quality
interactions between blogs, institutions, and readers; and incorporating blogs into meta-…
We believe that the ideal relationship, be it blogger- or institution-initiated, is one where
blogs are used as forges for developing ideas and forums for the discussion of accurate …
more palatable to institutional hosts and more trustworthy to readers; creating mechanisms
for institutions to provide appropriate (but not stifling) oversight to blogs and to facilitate high-quality
interactions between blogs, institutions, and readers; and incorporating blogs into meta-…
We believe that the ideal relationship, be it blogger- or institution-initiated, is one where
blogs are used as forges for developing ideas and forums for the discussion of accurate …
Blogs have stormed the Internet, providing an interactive medium for rapid and wide-reaching information dispersal. But is there a place for blogs in academia?
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