Sébastien Paquet summarises his thinking about blogs in research in story on Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research.
Uses of personal knowledge publishing for research:
- Helping in selecting material
- Visible web of interpersonal trust
- Managing personal knowledge
- Obtaining speedy feedback on ideas
- Facilitating connections between researchers
- Clustering content relating to emerging fields
- Fostering diversity
- Opening up windows in the Ivory Tower(s)
I like this story not only for the good quality content that provokes thinking and saves time of trying to explain “blogs” to my colleagues, but also for one more thing. For me, as a regular reader of Seb’s Open Research it illustrates the evolution of thinking: I recognise “bits of ideas” that I’ve seen before, and I’m fascinated to see how they emerge into a whole. What could be better for the “researcher-to-be” than observing how someone’s thought grows?
Tags: citedCh3, klog, KMArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2002/10/03.html#a263; comments are here.
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