Wednesday Blog Watch: Blog Peer Review Response

The blogging world is ablaze this week with discussions about Noah Wardrip Fruin's blogging peer review experiment.  The Info/Law blog, in the entry Can Crowdsourcing Beat Academic Peer Review, compares the experiment to one of Larry Lessig's:

Experiments in crowdsourced editing of academic work are known in the art.  Larry Lessig, one of the giants of the cyberlaw/IP field, turned to the Internet for help updating his landmark book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. The text of the first edition was posted to a wiki, where users could add their own contributions. A year and a half later, the result of the process was Code Version 2.0, which was published both online and in hard copy. In one respect, Professor Wardrip-Fruin is taking a more conservative route than Professor Lessig, allowing Grand Text Auto’s readers to comment on, but not to edit, his text.

ReadWriteWeb compares the experiment to Daniel Oran's use of the Kindle to beta-test his book in this article.  Scholarly Communication, though claiming that it's "unlikely that [this style of peer review] will replace the traditional peer review process -- at least not quite yet" , has an article here.  Sources and Methods makes some speculations in this post.  And the Voir Dire blog, in the post Celebrity Death Match: Blogs vs. Peer Review, seems to like the idea.