Hi Brad, Your discourse on blogging seems basically right.
Keeping a blog sounds alot like keeping a personal journal, but now it's on-line, full of links and commentary, and everyone invited to look over your shoulder. Naturally, some people's journals will be way more interesting than others. So, for ewxample, you and Ray and Keith and Harry and Karen could each have one (or several) blogs in which (on which?) your FW contributions mark part of your day and contain links to the blog-sites of the others. Hmmmm. Would I rather follow a discussion thematically, as on a List like FW, or would I rather follow an individual (or corporate person) bloggingly? I think I'd prefer a topical LIST (+ perhaps a small collection of particularly interesting individuals - a colleague thinking out loud, for some reason, about stuff I'm interested in). Some FW-ers have a virtual or shadow blog here on FW, no? So, yes, I can participate in FW and, as I am moved, go visit "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." at <http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/>. > Why should Harvard be so interested in blogs? People at Hahvahd are committed to finding each other particularly interesting, wouldn't you say? > Or is Harvard talking about researchers maintaining online synoptic > directories of their ongoing research, for reference by > other researchers and indexing/analysis by web search engines? > That might be very useful. Yes, but it's very bad for your patents pending ... Keeping a blog might also interfere with just getting on with your work. We haven't reached the day when keeping a blog IS your work <--- FW TOPIC HERE. >> ... Winer predicts that blogging >> will have a *profound effect on education*, and says: "I've already >> gotten e-mail from tons of educational institutions that want to be up >> on what we're doing." Sounds like hype - after all, this is the salesman speaking. Anybody know of exemplary blogs to visit? Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
