Bots, Blogs & News Aggregator
It's a little self-promotional for my tastes (and I wouldn't boast about having 'discovered' blogs in 2001), but this article contains many useful links to blogging software, aggregators, and individual feeds. More...

What's Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism?
Via WebloggEd comes this good article about how weblog journalism compares to the traditional form (and, by extension, to traditional learning). Most of the changes are based on the changing power relationship: because everybody can blog, the direction of information changes, and it becomes less of a commercial enterprise and more of a gift economy. More...

Dusk and Dawn
Got an email or two from the author to announce this new elearning blog (which, if the sequence of nouns in the title is any clue, must be a moonlighting gig). Some good content already. More...

A Brief Overview of the Linguistic Attributes of the Blogosphere
This "brief" (40 page PDF) essay makes two points. First (and importantly), bloggers form a community (or probably more accurately, a network of communities). Probably the most convincing evidence of this are the graphical representations of links between blogs. More...

Interview: SixApart's Degree of Weblog Integration
"We recognize that this works the way users work." That's the advantage SixApart's MoveableType is working with as it tries to develop wider business applications for the blogging software. More...

Matrix of Some Uses of Blogs in Education
This is a pretty nice start - be sure to click on the link in this post to the diagram - of a documentation effort to track the uses of blogs in education. Send your comments and suggestions to Scott. More...

Bloglines Most Popular Blogs
I'm currently sitting at the bottom spot on the Bloglines 'most popular blogs' list (which would be, I guess, 100th place), a position that has ironically generated a bit more traffic in the last few days. I was at a much higher position, as Bloglines was visited by the early adopters. But as the site attracted a more general audience, my site has begun to slip. More...

League Bloggin': Learning Objects in the Real World
One of the earlier learning object projects, Wisc-online has seems to fade from the mainstream recently as more visible initiatives have come to the fore. But Wisc-online hasn't vanished; according to this report they have created a nice collection of about 1,000 learning objects. More...

When Blogs Get Really Popular
While I have been saying that the blog phenomenon, this article - and the majority view - suggests that it will become even greater. But if you look more closely at the article, what you see is that blogging's growth may be fuelled more by a redefinition of the term than by any actual increase. More...

B.C. Educational Technology Users Group 'Blogtalk'
Scott Leslie reports on an interesting experiment involving the use of blogs to facilitate an online discussion on possible uses of blogs in education for the B.C. Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG). The experience left him with mixed feelings. More...