The peer-to-peer micropayment service Flattr wants to make November 29 "Pay a Blogger Day." No doubt, it's partially a marketing campaign for the service itself: if you're going to toss some coins a blogger's way, why not Flattr them, right? But it's also an occasion, says the Swedish startup, to highlight all the great content -- great, free content -- that's now available online, thanks to us bloggers. (You're welcome, of course.) Jason B. Jones uses "Pay a Blogger Day" as an opportunity to write about the sustainability of academic blogging over on ProfHacker today. It's not simply a matter of financial sustainability for academic bloggers -- although I suppose you could interpret it as such. Rather it's about how academia still fails to recognize a lot of the online work that scholars and students create -- such are the demands of tenure and the expectations of a well-rounded CV-- and how that in turn points to a broader "crisis in digital sustainability" -- people opting to set aside their blogging fo
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