Comments on: Research results as yesterday’s news, audiences and expectations http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/30/research-results-as-yesterdays-news-audiences-and-expectations/ Lilia Efimova on personal productivity in knowledge-intensive environments, weblog research, knowledge management, PhD, serendipity and lack of work-life balance... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:52:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mathemagenic » Am I killing publication opportunities with blogging PhD results? http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/30/research-results-as-yesterdays-news-audiences-and-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-14572 Mathemagenic » Am I killing publication opportunities with blogging PhD results? Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:53:41 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=1669#comment-14572 [...] others find useful what I wrote, especially given my fears that for many of my peers the findings would look like yesterday’s news. I feel like sharing several other pieces from the final chapter of my dissertation, especially [...] [...] others find useful what I wrote, especially given my fears that for many of my peers the findings would look like yesterday’s news. I feel like sharing several other pieces from the final chapter of my dissertation, especially [...]

]]> By: Norman Dragt http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2008/10/30/research-results-as-yesterdays-news-audiences-and-expectations/comment-page-1/#comment-4157 Norman Dragt Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:08:42 +0000 http://blog.mathemagenic.com/?p=1669#comment-4157 I agree, writing about anything is always writing for people coming up behind. The early adopters and the innovators, do not read to start doing anything. They read to find new ideas and develop new ideas of their own. In that sense you might even have found the achilles heel of science, it always is researching and writing about yesterdays news. But luckily for science it is not being paid to change the world, but to improve it. And to improve the world all you have to do is innovate. To change the world you need to come up with new ideas, that did not exist before. In that way science has a lot in common with journalism. What they write about has happened and will not come back, how often you write about it. But for those who were not present when it happened it is a method of taking part in that what happened without them. Hope your idea will give you the motivation to bring your PhD to a good end. I agree, writing about anything is always writing for people coming up behind. The early adopters and the innovators, do not read to start doing anything. They read to find new ideas and develop new ideas of their own.

In that sense you might even have found the achilles heel of science, it always is researching and writing about yesterdays news. But luckily for science it is not being paid to change the world, but to improve it. And to improve the world all you have to do is innovate. To change the world you need to come up with new ideas, that did not exist before.

In that way science has a lot in common with journalism. What they write about has happened and will not come back, how often you write about it. But for those who were not present when it happened it is a method of taking part in that what happened without them.

Hope your idea will give you the motivation to bring your PhD to a good end.

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