Webblog-ed

Now, this is super interesting. It is another blog about blogs, and their uses in education. I don't have much time now to comment on it, so I may come back and do that later.

Blog edited collection

Here's one of the articles from the upcoming collection. It seems that blogging has exploded all over the world of writing studies.

Professors Who Blog Part II

That professors who blog link is super interesting. Also check out this rant about English majors and law school:

The entry is May 6. Wow. Interesting stuff.

It seems that most professors who blog are fed up with academia and looking for an outlet. Also super interesting. I've been thinking of redoing my blogging, giving it a large overhaul, where I do an academic blog for others to read. My personal blog is well, too personal for that. Plus, even I get a little bored with the "today I did...." stuff. But I'm not interested in only griping about academia. I wonder why they are.

Gaze and Blogging

I wonder if theoretical perspectives like the gaze could be used to think about blogging. A friend was talking about how he was reading this girl's blog because he liked her, and he knew all these things about her like when she got a boyfriend, etc. But I don't think he was posting comments on the blog, just reading it.

So what about voyeurism with blogs? What about people out there who are reading them and not commenting on them? I know my friends, the ones reading and commenting, but there's no requirement to comment, and no reason why one can't follow your every step based on your blog. Interesting, and a bit scary.

C&C, blog research, & blog classes

Computers and Composition blog

A space for Blog Research. Looks like we're not the only interested parties...

Someone is teaching a course on blogs and the syllabus is online. There is a lot of stuff on this site. Take a look at the syllabus and readings. This guy is at Madison by the way.

Think that's about it for now.

Fem Rhet Blog

Check out this blog. This is the woman I saw at Feminist Rhetorics talking about her interest in blogs. Lots of stuff here.

Trackback info

Not sure I understand the Trackback thing either, didn't even know I installed it. But here's all I've been able to find out about it.

http://www.haloscan.com/news/

Ok, Joe Duemer is at Clarkson, looks like he might be a lit prof (got to do more research), and these seem to be comments on his blog (of which he has a lot of other kinds of links as well). Check out his homepage: http://chujoe.net/

So, watching this whole thing that has happened on Joe's blog has me thinking about ownership issues. It's almost beyond an intersection of public & private here. It's Joe's blog, and the argument has absolutely nothing to do with anthing he said. Is the space his anymore? But it's public space. Anyone can post there. So he doesn't own it. Neither do any of the others own each others' blogs, yet they want to control the space, what gets said about whatever else. Is something that someone says about you yours or that person's? Who owns words?

And what about authorship here. You don't write your own blog. But it's yours, so we think, "it's my blog and I write it." Well, not really. We all write each other's blogs together. We shape them together. I write about books, movies, etc. because that's what my friends write about. I don't write about too many really personal things because I don't want people to read them. But some things that I don't consider all that personal could be used to represent me in ways I don't want to be represented, so I can't actually control this. There's a lot of inter-authorship (is that a word? I just don't think co-authorship works here) going on in a blog.