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Agreed. Besides the length issue of a tweet (which don't apply to blog posts, as we all know from Steve Yegge) I also think that there is no incentive for a res
by sb 14y ago
Agreed. Besides the length issue of a tweet (which don't apply to blog posts, as we all know from Steve Yegge) I also think that there is no incentive for a researcher to participate in the social web--at least none that I can think of. Actually, quite the contrary is true: yesterday's post on academic blogs linked to the "serious engineering" blog, which contains the following line in a post about time management:
Do not read blogs and above all do not write them.
AFAIR, Matt Might had a somewhat different point of view, where he elaborates on strategies how to publish blog posts out of presentations, etc. To me the social web compares very well with the TV on the time-sink scale: you save a lot of time by not doing it.
- nernst 14y agoI'm fairly sure that line from Anthony Finkelstein is tongue-in-cheek. Like any profession, academia is about networking. Social media can really help here, and I think academics are slowly understanding this. There are two problems: blogging/tweeting are lower priority than grant-writing, teaching, marking, and paper-writing; and academics are usually older and (in my experience) older people don't 'do' social media as much. But in software engineering, at least, there is a good community of people on social media. For example, the Never Work In Theory blog (of which I'm an author), and various academics on twitter, like @profserious or @avandeursen.