Found via Marginal Revolution, this quote sums up the value of (essentially) blogging for yourself in academics: But the Harvard economist [Dani Rodrik] finds the blog — short for Web log — useful because it serves as a reference catalog for his ideas. “I now constantly Google my own blog for ideas that I knew [...]
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Role of Academic Blogging
15-Oct-08Libraries and “Status Skills”
11-Sep-06Trendwatching.com has an interesting article up on what they call “Status Skills“, which they define as: “In economies that increasingly depend on (and thus value) creative thinking and acting, well-known status symbols tied to owning and consuming goods and services will find worthy competition from ‘STATUS SKILLS’: those skills that consumers are mastering to make [...]