Why weblogs are rarely used to document research?

Follow-up thinking about why I don’t use my blog to document my PhD research.

I know that many people in my subscription list do research (as part of their job), but I don’t see many of them explicitly blogging about it. Reading their blogs I get a feeling of a situation similar to my own. I’m blogging bits and pieces only loosely connected to my main “research job” and you probably can’t explain what I’m doing in my PhD from reading my weblog. I wonder why it works like that.

Two ideas for now:

• I’m not so passionate about my PhD as about my blogging topics. – This is not true: I had a chance to define my PhD questions myself and I want to do it.
• There is something else… I don’t know yet… Only guessing.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/04/16.html#a552; comments are here.

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Tagged as: blogs in research, citedCh3