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Got my first “comment spam” Friday … from a Steven Fergusson (ip 207.21.148.174) … who felt the need to inform everyone that ” Today is my Birthday :-)… ” and associate it with the A different tune post from October 2003.
This is like writing graffiti on a bathroom wall, only it is a lot easier [...]

It seems logical to me that blogging is a tool that could be used to improve writing in the classroom. And I tried it spring quarter with not enough thought, perhaps, because the results were uneven.
I’ve been looking around the net for ideas on how to integrate blogs into the classroom, because I want to [...]

We had an anthropologist from the University of California Irvine — Bonnie A. Nardi — up for a lecture at the end of Spring Quarter. She had done some research with a small cohort of bloggers, seeking to understand why people blog.
Most of these folks were writing personal journals. A few were writing subject-oriented blogs. [...]

Blogads ran a survey 17-19 May 2004, trying to get some data on blog readers. More than 17,000 people completed the survey; results are now online.
These self-reported data suffer the same weaknesses as early Georgia Tech surveys of WWW users. With that as a caveat, however, the data are interesting — whether viewed in the [...]