Meaningless Blogs

It occurs to me today that I read a lot of interesting, but overall meaningless blogs. It’s great to keep up on news and technology, but what about advances in science and academia? Are people blogging about this also, and I just haven’t found it?

I’ve blogged in the past about how hard it is to keep up with all of the various media we have available today, especially in the context of having too many books to read 😉
Maybe the blog/rss model could be extended to the academic world, where we can all quickly and easily see what new ideas and findings are out there. Perhaps this would make academic progress less predicated on “who you know” and more on “what you have to say.

Brand X arguments

I almost completely missed that the Brand X arguments occurred yesterday. In my usual blog trolling, here’s the best I found (OK, they’re more from news sites than blogs):

I’m in the midst of writing a paper on this very topic for AEJMC. Perhaps more on that later.

iBook back

I finally got my iBook back today. I think this is the 5th time it conked out on me. This time, the fine DHL driver left my machine outside when we were under a tornado warning (2 out of 6 where they didn’t require a signature). Needless to say, I’m getting sick of having problems w/ this machine… yet I’m so attached to it. Me and my iLife.