I don't think we're pretending. I know I'm not!

Do your colleagues who read your work, annotate it, and comment on it not count as peer-review?

Am I wasting my time by annotating all of this? :) (I don't think so...)

The sound of this to me know reminds me of the type of suppression of thought that might have occurred in the middle ages.

Of course open thought and discussion is important for teachers the same way it is for every other person. However there are a few potential counterexamples where open discussion of truly abhorrent ideas can run afoul of community mores.

Case in point:

• https://boffosocko.com/2018/03/04/exclusive-florida-public-school-teacher-has-a-white-nationalist-podcast-huffington-post/
• https://boffosocko.com/2018/03/07/florida-teacher-says-her-racist-podcast-was-satire-new-york-times/

Note to self: I need to keep documenting examples of these open labs, open notebooks, etc. in the open science area.

Let me know when you're done and we'll see about helping you distribute it in .epub and .mobi formats as e-books as well.

Though all too true, this is just a painful statement for me. The entirety of our modern world is contingent upon the creation of ideas, their improvement and evolution, and their spreading. In an academic world where attribution of ideas is paramount, why wouldn't one publish quickly and immediately on one's own site (or anywhere else they might for that matter keeping in mind that it's almost trivially easy to self-publish it on one's own website nearly instantaneously)?

Early areas of science were held back by the need to communicate by handwriting letters as the primary means of communication. Books eventually came, but the research involved and even the printing process could take decades. Now the primary means of science communication is via large (often corporate owned) journals, but even this process may take a year or more of research and then a year or more to publish and get the idea out. Why not write the ideas up and put them out on your own website and collect more immediate collaborators? Funding is already in such a sorry state that generally, even an idea alone, will not get the ball rolling.

I'm reminded of the gospel song "This little light of mine" whose popular lyrics include: "Hide it under a bushel? No! / I'm gonna let it shine" and "Don't let Satan blow it out, / I'm gonna let it shine"

I'm starting to worry that academia in conjunction with large corporate publishing interests are acting the role of Satan in the song which could easily be applied to ideas as well as to my little light.

I like this sentiment. Had René Descartes been born a bit later might he have said "Blogeō, ergo sum"?

I can't help but think that doing this is a form of cultural anthropology being practiced contemporaneously.

Which is more likely: someone a 100 years from now delving into my life via my personal website that aggregated everything or scholars attempting to piece it all back together from hundreds of other sites? Even with advanced AI techniques, I think the former is far more likely.

Of course I also think about what @Undine is posting about cats on Twitter or perhaps following #marginaliamonday and cats, and they're at least taking things to a whole new level of scholarship.

example of a domain as thinking out loud or thought spaces blogging as thinking

[also on boffosocko.com]

space

lucky

personal learning network

perhaps marking it up with <abbr> tags would be useful here?