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Here's an idea if you want maximum reach AND influence....self-publish books and articles, and offer it all for free online via your blog. Best of both worlds...of course, you won't make so much money, but you don't make money from blogging either, but then again it is a tool to get your name out to sell books...

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I am tempted to say that most academic blogs are just a form of intellectual masturbation, but then again, so are most scholarly articles and academic books! But since we can't predict ahead of time which academic articles, books, or blog posts will have an impact on future work, we are (collectively) better off by having as many new ideas as possible ...

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