the best time to write the post is when you're making a talk about the work, since a blog post and talk feel like similar amounts of content and detail, plus you can re-use diagrams in both
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every published research paper should ideally have an accompanying summary blog post. i've tried to do this for everything i've published post-Ph.D. (sometimes batching several papers into one post) & encourage my students to do the same. 10-100x more people will read blog posts.
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i aim for 800-1000 words, which is a newspaper column/op-ed size: http://pgbovine.net/research-paper-summary-summary.htm …
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(not all our papers are on here, my students write some of the posts on their own websites and i link to them)
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Where do you advertise the blog posts other than website/Twitter? Does the original paper link to the post?
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oh wow i'm not that advanced!!! wow if every paper linked to a placeholder URL where the post would be that's cool. but usually the other way is more important; posts are a way to discover the paper. i don't advertise at all, just let google do its magic i guess?
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I've written about a few papers but those are the least visited posts on my blog. So maybe it only makes sense if your papers get enough attention for people to Google further
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oh it doesn't matter how many people see it online ... the point is that it's *there* so you can reference it. so if someone asks you about some work, you can just send them a URL so they can quickly learn about it.
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I either get no questions or very very specific questions about an error in line 25 of my code
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lol yeah line 25 is always the problem. i suggest to insert a newline so 25 is blank
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Couldn't agree more. The long form paper is for a particular audience: someone building upon the work and it's discoveries. If you want someone to just know what you discovered, shorter, web accessible media is waaaaay better.
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What am I missing? Isn't that what Abstracts are for?
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abstracts are still written for an academic audience. i've found blog posts a lot more liberating since i can actually write like how i'd talk to a friend
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also you can include pictures, animations, etc., and it's a bit longer (800-1000 words)
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You also can't tweet an abstract or a link to it that easily. Reading a mobile-ready blog post is a lot easier than downloading a PDF, zooming in, and reading an abstract. Always assume people are lazy, because they (we) are.
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Reading abstract of an arxiv paper is quite easy actually. You also get a lot of other Metadata as well. Without even downloading the paper.
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That’s great for researchers, still no good for other audiences. Even the best abstracts are just text: no links, no media, no voice.
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@pgbovine and love the idea of using vlog/blog/podcast posts to save time & educate. Question: which is the fastest with high impact? Considering hiring journalism students for blogs and mentoring young students via vlogs (e.g., see post on grad school apps). -
Thanks. Videos have been amazing. I consider it like virtual office hours. In fact, a lot of my video topics were inspired by real student questions.
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Exactly! I have had 3 meetings this week on graduate school applications. Will point folks to your site. Watching your vlog on vlogs right now. Thanks, bro!
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Thanks! I hope to organize stuff better in the future to make it easier to search (right now it’s pretty random) but the important thing is to get the content recorded first
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