This post in blogsperiment: looks at the role of blogs in Academia, by examining two other posts – and subsequent comments about blogs in Higher Education. Several points come out, such as the parallel between having a blog with comments (by other academics in the field) and peer reviewed publications – and also whether or not a blog would be a good form of getting feed back on, and getting interest in Journals – especially if those journals currently have a low readership.
This particular blog, Blogsperiment, has only been going since September 2004, and it’s been set up as ” a project for a course in online learning that I’m doing as part of a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and Learning.” There seem to be a lot of useful links.