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Trots att alla förnekar att bloggen hade något med det att göra, pågår det en massa spekulationer om varför bloggande professorn Daniel Drezner inte fick förlängd tjänst på University of Chicago. The New York Sun skriver t.ex.:

Under normal circumstances, a scholar who is denied tenure assumes that the decision was simply a reflection of a department's assessment of scholarship. In this case, Mr. Drezner and others are wondering whether the blog may have had an impact on his tenure status.

News of his tenure denial has struck a nerve in the growing community of academic bloggers, who are aware that blogging can be a double-edged sword: a powerful way to communicate scholarly ideas to the public and increase name recognition, and a risky venture in a field where every idea - even those roughly thrown together at 3 a.m. - matters.

Ett ganska nyligt försvar för akademiskt bloggande kunde man läsa i The Chronicle of Higher Education - "The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas" - av Henry Farrell från Crooked Timber.