August 10, 2007

• Sure, I find it odd that some people (my significant other, for example) don’t want to have anything to do with “being online” as in having an email account which they regularly check, having a profile on MySpace or Facebook, etc… but after watching The Today Show this morning, I am thinking they may be a bit better off. There’s a site “out there” called Reputation Defender; if you google yourself and find an angry blog post (again, blogging gets a bad rap! Dang it!) about you or incriminating pics, the people on this site will contact them and ask them to remove it. Some wonder if this violates free speech (since those angry blogger should be able to say whatever they want, right?), etc… it’s all very interesting anyhow.

  And… after searching for myself, I find some intriguing things (must-reads!)… “A Role For Blogs in Graduate Education” by Kristine Blair, The Effects of Blogging Knowledge by Lisa Ede, An Introduction to Using Blogs as Content in the Writing Classroom, with an Examination of Issues Ranging from Audience to Remediation (have I read this yet?) by Barclay Barrios, “Writers are not born, they are blogged.” Or are they? What teachers say, what research says” by Nichole Converse Livengood, Blogical Construction (a blog about blogging) by Laura Blankenship, … most of it extends from the Blogosphere article which is pretty cool.

  I sound so credible? “Presenters then illuminated their experiences with blogging and displayed their findings in tetrad form. First, Sybil Priebe discussed her prior history of journaling, and described the process she followed to become more comfortable with ownership of both a teaching blog and a personal blog, revealing that, over time, her teaching blog became the more necessary and important outlet for her writing. Priebe’s tetradic display demonstrated that she found blogging to enhance writing and reading for the blogger as well as a fullness of personal life. This type of online journaling, for Priebe, retrieved free expression of self. Her reversal with blogging involved self-consciousness and perfectionism, by allowing un-self conscious, free-form writing. Finally, Priebe acknowledged that blogging rendered isolated writing and actual conversation with colleagues potentially obsolete.”

  Oooh, and one site regarding my participation in the Fargo Marathon’s 5K this last May.

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