Blogs have become such a craze for a reason. Beacuse they are different!
When they first became popular they were a first in their field. We have Insant Messaging and things similar butnever a medium for regular people to have their life story on the internet for publis viewing. The make sharing ones life easy and global!
Blogs can range from high schoolers chating and exchanging with their friend to serious schollers publishing works of deep thought.
One example of a more serious and well thought out and applied blos is that of Stephen Downes at:
http://www.halfanhour.blogspot.com
Downes' blog has many of the features that make a blog a good blog.
One of these features is that it is constantly changing. The posts made to this blog are regular but always ranging in topics. A blog is viewed by many different people on many different occasions. For this reason it needs to be always interesting and up to date. However Downes' posts are still awlays thoughtful, crutical, reflective and written with purpose.
Stephen Downes also includes a number of more interactive aspects into his blog which can help to make it more interesting
thoughtful. Aspects such as pictures, videos and podcast like the following...
http://omegageek.net/podcasts/edtechposse_20050822.mp3
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