Schlogging

An interesting thing about this blogging gig is that my blog posts are more widely read than my scholarly essays. And it seems to me that it is probably not close. I can only imagine that something on the order of 100 times more people read each of my blog posts than have read any of my journal articles. I work on these things a little harder than it maybe seems like I ought to, but I work on my papers a lot more. Maybe I’m thinking about this all wrong.

Perhaps I should combine my scholarship with my blogging, and create scholarly blog posts. I would be schlogging.

I suspect that some of the smokers do some schlogging, and I think it's an interesting topic in itself. Do you get helpful comments? Is there a noticeable impact on the quality of your papers? How long did it take to build an audience large enough to be helpful? Do you find you have more name-recognition? Has it worked out well? Any advice for someone who was considering taking it up?

--Mr. Zero