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February 22, 2012
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"In times where fashion blogging seems to be conforming to mainstream, whitewashed world that fashion magazines have depicted for years, your push back at the problematic practices of fashion blogging is refreshing."

— jroselkim, the first comment on my kickaction blog about why the way you dress reflects your beliefs made me really happy. i’m currently working on/hacking away at a slightly long-term series deconstructing some of the (many) problems with fashion bloggers, and it’s really really hard. getting encouraging comments and notes like these makes such a huge difference, though. i don’t know if my readers truly understand how important they are to me. i’m totally spoiled.

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August 11, 2011
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Can bloggers help draw attention to academic papers?

champagneproblems:

Blogging about a paper causes a large increase in the number of abstract views and downloads in the same month: an average impact of an extra 70-95 abstract views in the case of Aid Watch and Blattman, 135 for Economix, 300 for Marginal Revolution, and 450-470 for Freakonomics and Krugman. These increases are massive compared to the typical abstract views and downloads these papers get- one blog post in Freakonomics is equivalent to 3 years of abstract views! However, only a minority of readers click through – we estimate 1-2% of readers of the more popular blogs click on the links to view the abstracts, and 4% on a blog like Chris Blattman that likely has a more specialized (research-focused) readership. There is some spillover of reads into the next month (not everyone reads a blog post the day it is produced), and no evidence that abstract views and downloads lead blog posts.

Not surprising that folks don’t tend to read further than abstracts since it usually costs serious $$ to access journals for those not in academia, but still interesting.

i think i could do pretty similar work that i was doing in the last two years of my studies if i still had access to academic journals. people often ask me if i miss school, but mostly i miss access to academic journals (and some certain amazing fellow students and of course great profs).

(Source: abbyjean, via bossyfemme)

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