I sometimes wonder whether one should think of publication as being on a continuum, from tweets to blogs to critical notes to articles to introductory books to monographs. \u00a0The summit of all publication is the monograph, and the well-written monograph actually takes some real skill and effort. \u00a0Tweets, on the other hand, at the other end of the spectrum, are forgotten almost as soon as they are uttered. \u00a0Blogs are somewhere in between. \u00a0They take a bit more effort than a tweet but like them they are pretty ephemeral. \u00a0It’s remarkable just how quickly we forget them, and that’s if we ever read them in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, back to the monograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(with examples from religious studies) Mark Goodacre at NT Blog makes the argument for blogging’s benefits, part of a series of blogger responses (links in his post): I sometimes wonder whether one should think of publication as being on a continuum, from tweets to blogs to critical notes to articles to introductory books to monographs. 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