the idea of "social scholar"

Here is a post I came across with a librarian explaining an idealized form of scholarship--using social software and web 2.0

http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2007/04/social_scholarship_on_the_rise.html

Here are the first four:
1. A social scholar contributes to the conversation about her research topic by discussing her findings and ruminations on her blog and by inviting comments. By doing this, she moves some of her research activities into the public arena.

2. A social scholar initiates or joins an online community devoted to her topic, using any of a number of social software services or tools.

3. During the source gathering phase of her research, a social scholar shares important citations by depositing and tagging them on academic-oriented bookmarking sites such as Connotea and CiteULike.

4. By placing items in social bookmarking sites, a social scholar takes an interest in and contributes to the phenomenon of soft peer review. This type of peer review derives metrics from content on social sites and user interactions with this content.