So You Think Blogs Are Blather?

I was googling the Elburn Mayors Web Log this morning just to see who has linked to it recently. Lo and behold, this humble blog is footnoted in a scholarly paper written by Professor Sonya Salamon of the University of Illinois.

Her paper was presented at the Emery N. Castle Symposium "Frontiers in Resource & Rural Economics Conference." The symposium was held this past October at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The title of her paper is "Globalization, Technological Change, Metropolitan Places, and the Hinterlands."

In fact, if you download Sonya's powerpoint presentation from the Oregon State website, you will notice that at one point in her talk she linked "live" to the mayors blog. Once again, this technology is just way too cool!

If you would like to read Professor Salamon's paper, click on the link to the paper, and look for her comments about Elburn in the conclusion section on page 15.

So if you think blogs are just blather, think again. There are people out there listening to this new technology, and interested in what we bloggers have to say.

I wondered where those Oregon "hits" were coming from?