Is Blogging a Waste of Time?

Trevor Butterworth at the Financial Times, thinks maybe so ... read more.

Comments

[Rafe]

Re the comments on Marx at the end of the piece, if I was a betting man I would put down a dollar to say that he will only be remembered as a journalist, and not a very accurate one at that.

Realistically, blogs are just another way of communicating, like the original penny post they carry whatever people want to send. It is easy to waste time on blogs: if you have something serious do do, like an article on Talcott Parsons for Pete's journal, then visiting ten or twenty a day and posting on three or four is a good way to ensure that the article does not progress. So it becomes a matter of setting priorities and checking out a small number of blogs where you hope to find links to other things that you really need to know about.

For the purpose of the great invisible college of scholars, email was probably the real breakthrough.