Thursday, February 06, 2003

Blogs as dynamic peer review systems Dave Winer picks up on the full conversation between Doc Searls and Chris Gulker which was linked here earlier.  Reading the whole piece, I agree with Chris Gulker's essay that blogs are continuing a tradition going back hundreds of years.  Instead of the postal service, we use the net as a medium.  Hence, with links to original documents, and added commentary, we have constructed a more dynamic form of asynchronous peer review than the postal service allowed.  The whole world can be part of the conversation in real time, instead of waiting for someone to publish those long lost letters in a scholarly collection. Chris Gulker: "Locke and Galileo and Descartes began writing each other about their discoveries, and then scientific academies formed, where these letters would be read aloud to others who shared an interest." [Scripting News] comment [] 9:55:59 AM