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	<title><![CDATA[Why Academics Should Blog (Redux)]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hugh-mcguire/why-academics-should-blog_b_146167.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>A few weeks ago, I wrote an article suggesting academics should blog, and it generated some intense debate and discussion, both on <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hugh-mcguire/why-academics-should-blog_b_138549.html">Huffington Post</a>, and on my <a href="http://hughmcguire.net/2008/10/26/why-academics-should-blog/">own weblog</a>. I had nine points, which you can read, but the first two points were, er, indelicate critiques of academic writing, born of some recent encounters with the form. I attacked both the quality of prose and the tenuousness of some of the ideas, and my generalizations might have been...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-12-26T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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