Blogging at MEA
Very nice summary of a panel at the Media Ecology Association (MEA) conference in Rochester featuring featuring Liz Lawley, Alex Halavais, Sébastien Paquet, Clay Shirky, and Jill Walker. More...

The Seven-year-old Bloggers
This article is making the rounds, and so it should - the concept of a seven-year-old expressing his or her thoughts in the same medium as (*gasp*) professional educators and journalists is a bit staggering. More...

Weblogs.com Blogs Closed Down
Last month, Movable Type demonstrated for us the dangers of proprietary software, raising license prices dramatically and killing hundreds (maybe thousands) of blogs in the process. More...

Academic Weblog Ranking Schemes
Some commentary from Seb, who was ignored in this list of academic blogs" and from David Brake as well, who comments, "It occurs to me once again how people seem to have internalised the inequities that result from ranking schemes like these (which also help to drive Google). How could Alex think for a moment that one way to 'maintain quality' of a list of academic weblogs was 'only allowing blogs that had been linked to by other, already established blogs'?" Just for the record, a total of 474 blogs link to Stephen's Web, which would make me second on the list of "top academic blogs," or third, if the author also included Seb. More...

How to use Weblogs to Create Engaging Learning Experiences
Nice overview article that describes the educational uses of weblogs and describes three-step design process using blogs to teach a program. More...

The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom
Short article outlining the possible uses of blogging in the classrom. The author makes his case by pointing to the importance of storytelling and literacy in the classroom, then drawing the connection between blogs, literacy and storytelling. More...