Rachel brought up an interesting question -- why blog? There are a lot of types of blogs -- academic blogs written by professors to political blogs to personal blogs about what someone ate for lunch. :)
One thing that I still find quite amazing, is that when 'experts' have blogs, anyone can go and access their writings. You can also often even comment on their blog and they might reply. For example, on the Becker-Posner blog, they write about issues related to economics. Becker is a Nobel-prize winner.
Given that they are good writers, bloggers can often make almost any topic interesting and accessible. For example, take a look at the Language Log. I had never realized that linguistics could be so interesting (and funny).
Communities also tend to develop around blogs. For example, there will be a blogger on some topic, and people will comment who have their own blogs, and suddenly there is a real community developing.
Here is a blog about blogs in education.
2 comments:
I think blogging can be fun. It's kind of like a diary. If you have time in your day it's nice to just write how your feeling and get everything out. I find it as a stress reliever to write down my feelings. It's cool to share what you feel like sharing to other people. It's also nice to get feed back if people make comments on your blogs. It's fun to read other peoples blogs too just to see what's going on in their world.
I agree with sara in her comment that blogging can be fun if it is personal. It can be nice just to write down what you are feeling and maybe it could help with you realizing what you should do in the situation you are in. Its almost like, when you read it back, someone else is telling you the story and you are able to take a different view on the situation. Although it can really help if they are personal, academic blogs can be harder to write because it a very specific thing to write about and it is harder to write on the spot. Over all i think that blogging is a good thing!!!
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