Chronicle on Blogging

Here's an interesting piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education on blogging.  Here's a short blurb:

In the words of the National University of Singapore philosophy professor and blogger John Holbo, the difference between academic publishing and blogging is reminiscent of "one of those Star Trek or Twilight Zone episodes where it turns out there is another species sharing the same space with us, but so sped up or slowed down in time, relatively, that contact is almost impossible." Which is not to say that blogs and more conventional forms of publishing can't complement each other very nicely. Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog and Alfredo Perez's Political Theory Daily Review are excellent examples of how blogs can improve the circulation of ideas in a field, by highlighting new, interesting papers and giving brief descriptions of their contents.