It seems to me that the discourse of the blog and the discourse of our actual class meetings are on kind of parallel and seldom interactive tracks. Every now and then in class somebody will reference a post from the blogging that has been done in the intervening time between class meetings, and we may occasionally expand on what general topics are currently in vogue "on the blog." However, I feel that overall the blog and the class are existing as separate, sometimes adversarial spheres.

How are they adversarial? I don't know if anybody else is experiencing this, but I have been finding it somewhat difficult to balance the need to participate to the required degree in both.