Let me just say – if it is not immediately obvious – that “this proposed blog”:http://earningmyturns.blogspot.com/2010/08/rosenberg-on-carr-on-links.html, if it were to come into being, would immediately go on the blogroll (although, Andrew at least may not have time, since he is already contributing to three blogs including this one …).
bq. Scott Rosenberg is too polite to suggest a more cynical reason for Carr’s anti-link obfuscation: it’s the latest episode in Carr’s profitable series as Web-critic-on-call. Nevertheless, Rosenberg’s piece is very worth reading especially for how it takes apart Carr’s misleading “studies show” appeal to scientific authority. I’m dreaming of a new blog called Studies Do Not Show with Rosenberg, Mark Liberman, Andrew Gelman, and Cosma Shalizi as founding contributors…