Research - (V) Instant publishing

I chose to use Blogger as my content management system/weblog publishing tool based on the opinions held in The Weblog Tool Roundup by Joshua Allen. He says that Blogger (and Diaryland) are ;

"easy to use and free of charge (they ask that you include a small promotional button in exchange for the service). Both are Web-based applications that live on somebody else's server, and this is a key difference from some of the other tools we'll be talking about. What this means is that you don't have to worry about installation or maintenance or anything else, you just create an account, choose a prefab template or build your own, and you're ready to start spilling your guts right from your browser."

Blogger sells itself as "push-button publishing" and its pretty much as simple as that. As I have already explained, I've been looking for an immediacy of feedback that a paper-based method of publication doesn't allow. Blogger also allows me to review and edit work and writing that I have already published to the web, correcting errors in a hard copy would be a difficult maybe impossible task.

For a further discussion of online publishing have a look at Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals by Stevan Harnad, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. At the end of the paper he makes a suggestion

"as to what the optimal and inevitable outcome of all this will be: The Give-Away literature will be free at last online, in one global, interlinked virtual library (see <http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/citation.html>), and its QC/C expenses will be paid for up-front, out of the S/L/P savings. The only question is: When? This piece is written in the hope of wiping the potential smirk off Posterity's face by persuading the academic cavalry, now that they have been led to the waters of self-archiving, that they should just go ahead and drink!"