The internet created a lot of new mediums. Blogs, vlogs, tl;dr culture, explainer videos, Twitter, podcasts, clickbait, ELI5, etc. It seems like we never saw new mediums emerge for academia. Probably because the same institutions are consuming and generating the content?
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A few: Bret Victor, 3Blue1Brown, Vi Hart, Satoshi, Eric Drexler, Ted Nelson (in a sense), Alan Kay (ditto). I decided to (mostly) stop writing papers in 2008, and to concentrate on more experimental media.
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For me, this is a kind of laziness. I've had at least one blog post where I pinged professors I know to see if the idea was novel, and then when it seemed to be, I wrote a blog post. Ofc. this is easy for me to do because I have a career path where papers are of no value to me.
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I have a relatively recent paper that won "best paper" award at a top conference in its field, but it's much less rigorous than my median blog posts for reasons totally outside of my control related to the "paperness" *and* it was probably 10x the work of a blog post :-/
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