Today we’ve passed 10,000 views; time for some review & reflection…
So why do academics blog? One thing is exposure. Another, discussion. Then there is richness in pedagogy. Honestly, there are even conferences on this topic. Some even claim academics MUST blog. Which is why there are even “academic blogging portals” on a variety of topics.
And why does it matter? We know surprisingly little about the impact of blogs. They have started to become part of e-learning. Also, new concepts around it arise all the time – e.g. “book 2.0“; putting your book “out there”, discussing it and reaching global exposure. A bit of advanced open source publishing, with the idea to reduce the “research-reality gap“. At the same time, blogs may even question the publish or perish mentality of academia. Or, most interestingly, blogs are a way to go for academic journals – see e.g. Nature‘s blog (yeah, this IS hard-core science).
Not surprisingly, SCM academics also have blogs. We have a list of them on our links page. They vary from a focus on education in maritime shipping (btw, here’s a most funny view on “shippers“), to more industry-related stuff, to comments on academic presentations.
And of course this very blog, which… well, I’m not sure I want to define what it focuses on, or whether it has a sole focus. In any case, it has seemingly captured the interest of some people – why otherwise would we’ve had over 10,000 visits by now? 
Gyöngyi
