Here are reasons why Sébastien thinks blogging has failed to become a research nexus:
- It takes time.
- "The technology is not well-established and tested at this point."
- Many people don't like being among the first ones doing something.
- Not all scholars are used to the Web and hypertext.
- Shyness and fear of public mistakes. Many scholars won't write unless they have to. They may especially be reluctant to publicly expose ideas that they haven't tested.
- Fear that someone else will pick up their ideas and work them out before they do. [Sébastien Paquet]
I agree with both sets of reasons. I find it fascinating that nowhere in the second list do these objections appear:
- RSS is becoming too complex. It needs to remain simple, human-readable and -writable.
- RSS is too monolithic. It needs modular extensibility.[Jon Udell]
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