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Hoops Analyst made the WSJ online for his Lin prediction. His site is now crushed.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 41868.html

Well, if you want to compare vitriol in online comments, I'm pretty sure Krugman wins over Berri hands down. He still manages to not dismiss all of it as beneath him. And yes, anyone can post something on their blog. Generally it will get ignored. If someone else looks at it and finds it compelling,...

I find dichotomy of Nobel Laureate, John Bates Clark Medal Winning Paul Krugman's, and Berri's opinions on online discussion and refereed journals interesting. Krugman could be the ultimate arguer from authority, yet engages online authors with interesting ideas, Berri dismisses anything not in a re...

I know this is probably fighting the last war, but Krugman had a blog entry yesterday talking about how referreed journals have been gamed for decades and that the new online discussion model is preferrable.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0 ... ogosphere/