Zakaj blogi niso bolj popularni v akademski rabi?

Kdor je v zadnjem The Scientistu prebral članek Davida Secka "The Power of the Blog - Few scientists have caught on to the Internet's power of posting, commenting, and debating – where are the rest?" bo z zanimanjem prebral tudi odziv enega od uglednih informatikov Alexa Halavisa v njegovem blogu z naslovom "Why not more scholarly bloggers?".