[reureu]

A few years ago, I decided to stop blogging and instead focus that energy towards sharing my work and thoughts in other (typically more academic) venues. So, now, I focus more on posters, talks, papers, and the like in my professional spaces. It's a bit more involved than just throwing up a blog post, but it also helps me narrow in my interests so the work I do submit is more complete and interesting. It also has a wider audience than my blog ever had. And so, instead, my personal website looks more like an academic CV with links to my work presented at conferences and in journals, but with a decidedly industry spin and sometimes with some additional context/summary.

YMMV, but just a thought for those that are also weighing decisions around blogging versus not.

[themodelplumber]

That's interesting. I have heard a lot about posters from academics over the years. Is there some huge virtual corkboard for academics somewhere or where do these posters go and what are they for? (If you get a second for HN comments :-))

[reureu]

They're typically just easy ways to submit early work, work in progress, etc to a conference with relatively little commitment.

I'm in the biomedical informatics world generally, and for my conferences it's a one-page abstract that describes your work, if accepted after peer review (which, there's a 90% acceptance rate) you then make a poster with more details about what you did and then stand by it for about an hour during the conference and answer any questions from people walking by. Then I typically just have links to the abstract and PDF of the poster on my website.

The poster doesn't prevent you from doing anything further... so, if you keep working on it, you can turn it into a talk or paper. And a lot of companies will pay for your travel to a conference if you're presenting, so it's often the lowest-effort way to get your company to pay for you to go to a conference.

[themodelplumber]

Fascinating, thanks for providing some clarity on that.