This is somewhat true

I read a blog posting at DarkReading this morning, it was about security guys becoming admins in their daily work. In some sense this is true, I've also seen that happen. More time goes into administration than doing real security work.

Has anyone noticed the "trend" going on at some mailinglists?

"Hey, look! I made a blog post! Come and read, and comment!"
"Hey, look! I made another blog post, now I talk about this!"
"Hey, look! I made a blog post in response to your mailing list discussion!"

To me that sounds more like trying to get more readers to your blog with some silly advertising. I would be hesitant to post my own blog posts to any mailinglist unless I've tried to actually do some research I want responses to, and it is easier to present it in a blog entry. More reasonable would actually be to copy-paste the blog entry and just point a link to the blog, to possibly keep the discussion at mailinglist level.

But anyways, I hope this trend doesn't get too common.