My first attempt to start a research-related blog...

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...has been an utter demoralizing failure. Either I don't understand Blogger software, or it is no damn good for anything a bit text-heavy. I completely lost two days' hard work. It was a bloody good article, too, and to rewrite anything a second time is, to me, an agonizing experience.

Comments

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Don't you write in a text editor and save the file first?

Rather than a blog, you might consider something like scribd (http://www.scribd.com/) for academic articles.

[kikei.livejournal.com]

I second the text-editor comment (although I do tend to write directly into lj's web interface because I'm always somewhere). I don't know much about Blogger myself but I would hope they have an autosave feature, much in the way of lj, so you don't lose absolutely everything.