Blogging Developer Knowledge:Motivations, Challenges, and Future Directions \cite{parnin2013blogging}

blogs are supplanting and improving upin many traditional forms of knowledge sharing such as official documentation or asking colleagues etc.

 the corporate blogging community
provides access to tacit knowledge and that it contributes to
new forms of collaboration within the enterprise.

found that the interactivity in blogs is limited,
and they speculate that many bloggers contribute to blogs in
order to reflect, share opinions and advice.

data collection:
1. select 3 technology areas
2. select 2 technology platforms from each area
3. studies several common concepts, tasks or questions developers may have
4. select keywords which has mixture of tasks and specific technical terms

There are many research directions to explore:
1) Publishing tools: How to support or automate blogging
of coding tasks?
4) Knowledge tools: Aggregating, curating, and mining blog
post content.