As I listened to your discussion, I wondered whether that makes a difference: students blogging (and indeed tweeting and youtubing) independent of the university infrastructure.

I agree with you that this conversation has only just begun…

I agree with you that citation indexes don’t make much sense in the humanities, but I think Google Scholar Citations allows for two interesting things.

It allows researchers to correct false attributions. For example, I have authored a few books in literary studies, but not the one Google Scholar Citations—and Amazon.com—thinks I authored about making three-d animation movies.

It also allows researchers to correct weird bibliographical references. Almost every citation I was attributed by Google Scholar Citations suffered from some kind of inaccuracies.

For the time being I have decided to make my page public; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=thobws0AAAAJ&hl=en. I don’t know for how long, though.