| First to publish, academic articles, and blogging |
So, I've been wondering about this for a little while. Where do I draw the line between blogging, and putting in jeopardy the first publication date for my academic papers? My understanding is that my thesis needs to be unique and original at the time of publication, but that if I blog bits of it before then, then I put that at risk because someone else might write a paper about it and publish it before me. Then again, how does blogging differ from progress seminars?
Discuss. [tags: publication blog]
posted at: 18:18 | path: /phd | permanent link to this entry
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#1
Billy The Blogging Poet
While there are tricks that can prevent your blog from being archived by the search engines in case you want to submit to publishers someday, I don't think I'd take any chances on my thesis. I hear those professors can be rather difficult on things like that. It's simply not worth the risk.
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#2
Peter
Isn't the difference between blogging and a progress seminar that blogging is much less formal and outside the accepted academic process? PhD students are expected to write articles and do seminars, but blogging is outside the system and it's very hard to keep track of it.