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End of semester craziness
Submitted by Natwwal on 15 December 2006 - 4:55pm. class blogI think that much of the posting craziness that has gone on in the past few days is evidence of our collective procrastination, but I, for one, have enjoyed it quite a bit. For perhaps the first time this semester, I find myself approaching the blog as something fun to do, rather than something I'm doing for a grade and therefore must do an impressive job of. I'm going to be a bit sad to have it gone. I hope that you guys keep posting every now and again, even if only occasionally. This has been a lot of fun.
Blogs, speed, and interactivity
Submitted by Natwwal on 14 December 2006 - 6:56pm. blogs | class blogIt's true that the end of semester increase in post frequency has allowed for a lot of fun interaction. It also seems that without a ton of class reading to discuss, people are making fewer monologues and are actually responding to eachother, which I think is fun.
Early on, we talked a lot about whether blogs were truly interactive, or whether they offered a false interactivity. I think in these last few weeks I've gotten a better sense of the kind of interactivity that really serious bloggers manage. Professional bloggers often post several times a day, and when you have a group of peop
one more question
Submitted by zoey on 14 December 2006 - 6:13pm. class blogI wonder what the blog would look like if it was less structured. Just kind of a free-for-all. Length of posts, amount of posts, content of posts, all completely open. Would that be better or worse?


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