I've been blogging since August, so obviously I'm a tremendous expert.
- Always include a link to the originator of your knowledge. It's the whole point of a blog.
- Exercise editorial discretion. If there's anyone following you, it will be because your viewpoint helps them to find things they want to read. If your inner editor says cute pictures of kittens, then that's what you need to link to. If not, then you should probably avoid them like a simile for something to avoid.
- Stephen Strogatz needs to post more often.
- Nate Silver still posts interesting information about statistics, but his graphs haven't been updated in a month. Get on that, Nate!
- Blogs are available anywhere. If I find something important, I can put it here and never have to search for it again.
- Blogs can be accessed at the user's pace. They can give you the tip-of-the-iceberg introduction to a subject and point the way to more. An interested reader can pick an choose what interests them.
- The interactive qualities of blogs aren't up to the standards of one-on-one face-to-face teaching, but they stand up well in comparison to what happens in a lot of overcrowded classrooms.
- Blogs can allow students to self-publish at extremely low cost, and with a great deal of control over the way their ideas are presented.
- As a centerpiece of a class project, a blog could provide a great way to distribute, collaborate, and collate the work.
- There's nothing magical about the number 10.
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