Tuesday, February 3

"Another blog story link:

"Welcome to Weblogs at Harvard Law, an experimental community where more than 350 students, faculty and staff members, and alumni have signed up to publicly express their thoughts about everything from social issues to software, from literature to love. Based at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the initiative is free and available to anyone with a Harvard.edu e-mail address. And except for a few private blogs limited to specific classes, all Harvard-hosted blogs can be read by anybody on the Web."
And from the education corner:

"Some educators use blogs as teaching tools. John Palfrey, a lecturer at both HLS and the Extension School, posts syllabi, reading materials, and lectures on class blogs; he encourages, but doesn't require, students to use them. He views the technology as a way to extend the classroom experience, and to provide a new forum for people who might be too shy to speak up in person. "This helps us explore how people express themselves," says Palfrey, who also maintains an HLS blog on legal issues."
[Weblogg-ed News]

"(via my Feedster search feed) NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin has seen the light about Weblogs as an alternative news medium.

Blogs are, as I now appreciate, as legitimate a method of communicating information and opinion as traditional media...Political life in the United States is changing and so, it seems, should be how and where political journalism chooses its information.
I love it..." [Weblogg-ed News]

Why Blogs Mean Business
"How will blogs change the way we do business and work with ideas? John Battelle's column in the February 2004 issue of Business 2.0 magazine provides some important insights."
[Innovation Weblog]