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As part of Teaching Month (which, to be honest, is ''Teaching 17 Days'' but that just sounded naff on flyers and banners), the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is running a group blog in which a number of academics, professional staff and at least one student are exploring the place of blogs and blogging in higher education.  ...

In two recent articles, one in The Guardian and one from the BBC, it appeared that Tim Berners-Lee, the scientist who invented the internet as we know it today, had decided blogs were part of the problem, not the solution. From The Guardian, for example: Sir Tim believes devotees of blogging sites take too much information on trust: ''The ...

I was recently asked to write a blog post about ''Why I Blog'' for the journal Reconstruction.  I originally posted this to my personal blog (Ponderance), but thought it might be of interest to those just entering the blogosphere ...Beginning and Motivations As someone whose doctoral thesis examined many aspects of digital media, you ...

In today's Age, an fairly decent article, 'Adventures in blog land', looks at the emerging importance of blogging in academia both in building research profiles and allowing academic voices to be heard outside of the ivory towers of the university. Some points worth highlighting: While ordinary folk drive the blogging phenomenon through citizen ...

Here are some suggestions of blogs to illustrate how postgrads and academics are using blogging. Feedback is welcome ... A few good postgraduate and early career academic blogs: Thoughts from Kansas / Joshua Rosenau, USA ''A graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas by day, an activist by ...