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I think that academic blogging is ridiculous. I do think that all academic papers are in some way personal and maybe even more personal than bogs/online journals etc. Because the personal is not as explicit it allows the person to be more truthful because their person is not as easily exposed. Bloggers come across to me as exhibitionists and in this sense they are fake to me because I know I cannot truly understand their experiences (even after reading their works). At least with academic, third person, papers I can acknowledge that the political is personal but also recognize that I cannot possibly comprehend everything about that person's point of view. 

All of the online conversations that takes place in forums, e-messages, aim, etc. devalue face-to-face human interaction.  How intimate is a person being with you sharing their ideas on some virtual plane? There's a sort of sacredness about ideas that is unable to be expressed without the face-to-face interaction.