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Using a blog as some sort of pre-cursor to publication is not a concept that I have come across previously, or considered.  In many ways it is very logical.  I recall from years ago a Professor once pointed out to me that just because the acceptance rate for publications in some US Business Journals was only about 3% that did not mean that the balance, 97% had no merit, it was simply that there was a stringent editorial process that limited the number that could be accepted.  Based on that, then it is probably the case that there is more good research NOT published than published!  Lovely.  This reminds me of an old Dave Allen joke that goes along the lines of “do you realised that 22% of fatal accidents on our roads are killed by drunk drivers?  That means that 78% are cause by people that don’t drink.  So please, will you sober people get off the roads!”  And if you can remember Dave Allen I like you already.