Techdirt: Who Needs Harvard When You Can Blog?

Well, it's taken a little more than fifteen years, but the original purpose of the Internet has finally come to fruition:

But as the internet and other communication technologies have made it easier for academics to share information with others in their field (not just at one's own university), the relationship between one's output, and that of others at the same university has been eliminated.

Techdirt: Who Needs Harvard When You Can Blog?