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Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'

By Richard E. Ferdig, Ph.D., and Kaye D. Trammell, University of Florida

  • Blogosphere.us (www.blogosphere.us) and Weblogg-ed (www.weblogg-ed.com) offer news on current trends in blogs and educational blogging. In both cases, the bloggers are educators who use blogging in their courses, while one of the online resources even teaches a class about blogging.

  • Currently, there are two major annual conferences for blogging enthusiasts. BlogTalk (http://blogtalk.net) held in Vienna, Austria, is an international academic conference where scholars from around the world present research on blogs. And BloggerCon (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/bloggerCon), held at Harvard University, is a user-orientated conference where bloggers converge to talk about the social implications and uses of the technology.

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Richard E. Ferdig, Ph.D., and Kaye D. Trammell, University of Florida, "Content Delivery in the 'Blogosphere'," T.H.E. Journal, 2/1/2004, http://www.thejournal.com/articles/16626

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