How goofy is it to cite your own blog work in an academic paper?
I'm starting my doctoral work pretty soon, and something just dawned on me…how arrogant/vain/self-indulgent/downright silly would it be to cite one's own weblog posts as references when writing an academic work? It would certainly be acceptable by what I remember as APA standards, albeit being a little strange for an instructor to validate a student's work and seeing within a list of "resources cited" multiple instances of her own documented thoughts.
Years ago when I was getting my MBA, I'd be one of the few in my classes who would have the majority of sources cited in a paper based on web URLs. But sadly, these were in the days before the rise of the almighty blog, when reliable news and academic sources were used. In the years since, I've copied some of my better works over to my blog, for reasons such as the topics I wrote about are still relevant, and that I'd like an easily accessible locale in case I ever need to bring them up suddenly.
My dissertation is likely going to be a continuation/extension of my Master's thesis, being an examination of the variance of the consumer psychology between traditional and Internet-based product marketing. (I know, I know…YAWN!) As such, I've got a body of existing work containing lots of things I can draw from.
But how weird would this be? I guess as in all things, moderation would be key.