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I especially liked to discussion of various aspects of citing, especially the last bolded below:

Journalism, until the advent of the Internet, was not a footnote medium, and while the great glory of blogging is the links that make it possible to trace any assertion of fact to a checkable source, these are also a distraction to thinking, and a goad towards the quick conclusion. The contemporary academic is also under obligation to attribute every statement--even of opinion, and no matter how petty--to a source. It can be a useful habit, though also a strange survival of the old medieval assumption that there can be nothing new under the sun, and that everything we know must come from some established authority. In the hands of the postmodern academic, it becomes a silly conceit, a bad joke--trash, with elaborate references to other trash.

How true!