More Bill Thompson quotage, (the BBC guy from the previous post):

A search for computer mediated communication gives four academic journals in the first results page – and I doubt any of the social software bloggers have read or consulted any of them.

I would highly doubt that NONE of the bloggers have read academic journals.  In fact,  I would think just the oppostite.  I detect a note of insinuation there,  that the Webloggers are devoid of academic sophistication. Or is that just me? 

Not that “academically sound” doesn;t itself smack of some intellectaul snobbery,  and that some “academic papers” are not “full of themselves” and therefore likely to be low on the list of worthwhile references for bloggers who are blogging Social Software defintions and debates.