The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity – The Digital Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education

We tend to overstate the dangers of open approaches and overlook the benefits, while the converse holds true for the closed system.

via The Virtues of Blogging as Scholarly Activity – The Digital Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Perhaps scholarly communication is a good place to enact the proactionary principle. The idea would be to pursue the benefits of blogging (or digital technology) for scholarly communication, focusing on the advantages without getting hung up on the disadvantages (most prominently, the lack of prepublication peer review).

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