> It seems like the real issue here is prestige, which then > translates to funding. "Publish or die" is how most > researchers seem to live. Thus I think

> It seems like the real issue here is prestige, which then > translates to funding. "Publish or die" is how most > researchers seem to live. Thus I think if we are able to > show that self-publishing/distributed publishing brings > the money to the researcher and the academic institution > then this idea would get traction. That's basically right. Academic researchers are evaluated on the number and quality of their peer-reviewed journal articles. Blogging is a distant secondary concern for most researchers because it doesn't contribute, in a direct way, to tenure or grants. This is changing, but slowly.