I'm very late coming to this, especially considering Jan Blommaert has announced that he has been diagnosed with stage-four cancer, but I found out about his research blog, Ctrl+Alt+Dem, not long ago.
A lot of interesting material there, including videos Blommaert has made about a variety of topics related to his research. As he has said in a retrospective post,
I saw it as part of my duty to subvert that system [of academic publishing], to share and distribute things usually not free to be shared and distributed, and to do so early on with recent material. For making old texts widely available is good and useful, but the real need for scholars in very large parts of the world is to gain access to the most recent material, to become part of ongoing debates, to align their own research with that which is cutting-edge elsewhere. And the academic publishing industry does brilliant, truly majestic efforts to prevent exactly that.
His blog is a great example of how this can be done.
[Belated Update, May 20, 2021: Jan Blommaert's obituary from The Guardian, Feb. 8, 2021. RIP.]
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