« We need people who fill the roles once filled by the Public Intellectual, but who understand that the way to have actual impact on the way people think about vital matters of public interest is no longer the preparation of a well-defended dissertation or a devastatingly annotated white paper, but the delivery of substantial thought in bloggable packages.

We’ll always need brilliantly-focused research. But that’s never been the role of the Public Intellectual. The role of the Public Intellectual has always been largely to synthesize and redefine so that the best ideas rise to the top of the debate and the people’s imagination is provoked with a sense of possibility. »

Source: Blogs and the Networked Intellectual

Tout à fait dans le sens de ce que je souhaitais exprimer dans ce texte…