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Daniel Drezner wrote an interesting essay about blogging and academia called “Confessions of a Scholar-Blogger”. http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0502/features/blogger.shtml
R- Thanks for the link! This is becoming an interesting topic in academia as many of us push to expand the notion of what academic writing can and should be. Further, I belong to the camp that says: Hey, our work ought to be written for the public good, too.