Blog start – Motivation and goals

I have resisted, myself, for a long time, to start a blog… What was I suppose to write about? My private life? My friends already know what I up to and others would not care what I am doing… My job? My concerns? Mmhhh, may be…

During this last year, I have been fed by a lot of interesting blog posts and I got involved in very interesting discussions gaining insights on topics and issues I never imagined. I think that has triggered my willingness to participate more actively in this information sharing process.

So, my own gift for this year´s birthday (23rd of June) is to start this blog with the intends of publishing on the topics that run in my head, trying to come out of the box, and hoping to achieve some regularity on posting, where regularity is something not part of my set of skills.

Summing up my motivation and goals of this academic-research/technology blog:

1. I realized that putting into text ideas flopping in your head helps to digest and analyze them. Then you can easily share them and receive feedback that may ultimately help in assessing your ideas and encourage true innovation.
2. Blogging naturally fits with the spirit of research, allowing to express your ideas about your research, in a less formal way than by writing a paper or technical report.
3. Blogging on research enables linking with diverse researchers whose varied interests and points of view keeps your mind open and fresh. Sharing your thoughts with a potential large Internet community helps to get in touch with people with common concerns ultimately promoting constructive critics and creative thinking.

Please feel free to comment, send feedback, and give me time to write nonsenses.

Christian.

References:

• Daniel Lemire, What is academic blogging about? 2008
• Gerard Goggin, Public intellectuals in the Internet age, 2007.
• Julia Davies, Guy Merchant, Looking from the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as a New Literacy, 2006.