blog vs academic blog…
please define an academic blog… i know a blog is an online log of me.. an academic blog should predominantly be an online log of academic thoughts by me. I am feeling that without any personal additives, this could easily become a very sterile blog that no one wants to read. This essay would argue that the whole basis of the 2.0 phenomenom relies on the personality that one brings to their blog, in order to create a community that extends beyond your own self.
So.
Just to keep it real, walk with me. I have spent all day on n off researching and writing my page on 2.0, looking for a new place to live, struggling with my radio doco that is due on wednesday, doing over due housework and the better part of the night trying very hard to get drunk.
I wanted to share this with you.
If you are out there reading this, please send me some luv and read my pages, add a thought or send a smile.
Here is a pic of me right now eating cheese n tomato on toast, 1.29am, still unable to relax from my duties as a blogger 
note- by the time i got my cam to work i had finished my cheese on toast so i just took a pic of me and my little mate jamal who supports my enthusiasm and late night study efforts xx
Hi Terri, hmmmmmmm what is an academic blog? Indeed, what is a non-academic blog. I guess the line between the two becomes blurred, just like the line between fiction and fantasy, or autobiography and fact. I did a quick search to check out what is happening in the area of discussion about academic blogs. There is a lot of discussion on the blog sites about the impact of blogging and its penetration in to the academic world. Here are a few that I checked out:
Has the blog become another form of Essay writing? Will the blog ever be fully accepted as academic writing? Start your exploration in to these and other fascinating and frustrating questions surrounding the rapid explosion of blogs in to the academic arena at these sites:
Blog about academic writing: http://namckeand.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogging-as-academic-writing.html
And constructing an academic life
http://namckeand.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogging-as-academic-writing.html
Great article on the academic blog culture:
http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0515,edsuppdayal,62903,12.html
Interesting article on the blog and Academia’s acceptance of the blog as an academic portal. The author puts forward his views on the blog as an “endless conversation” http://althouse.blogspot.com/2005/11/academic-blog-controversies.html
Another interesting article about blogs and Academia. The article is called “Attack of the Career-Killing Blogs” http://www.slate.com/id/2130466/
If you have a look at the different views circulating out there in the “Blog University” you will see that the jury is still out about Academic Blogging as an entity in its own right. Like everything cyber, I guess it is still in its chrysalis stage and will morph in to something exciting when the incubation time is up.
Keep on Blogging, academically or not!