Thoughts on blogging

I attended the Shock of the Old conference last week, an e-learning conference organised by Learning Technologies Group here at Oxford University Computing Services. Blogging was mentioned a few times, in particular by my friend Robert O'Toole, who has giving a paper about the Blogging system at Warwick University he's heavily involved in. The day highlighted a few areas of Bolg I've found interesting.

Firstly, Robert mentioned the use of a Blog as a mental bucket to dump things in. This is something I've found very useful, and have made increasing use of with my blog (though most of it isn't made public).

Secondly, alot of people highlighted the social networking aspect of Blogging as very important. to some degree I find that a little depressing, not because it's not important, but because my blog isn't really linked into any others. It's not part of any particular organisation like Warwick, nor is it run on a standard Blogging system like Blogger. Robert doesn't even link to me! (Though this is understandable, Robert's Blog is extremely active and high-brow - it'd be like Wittgenstein referring to the Daily Mirror horoscope...)

Finally, a Blog is seen as a form of self-expression. This is of course a very obvious fact, but one I should bear in mind more, and try and find my own style more, which probably means adding more of the short silly thoughts and observations that occur to me day to day...

so with that it mind, I hear that Charles' and Camilla's Wedding was beaten in the viewing ratings by the Grand National.

Maybe that was because more people had money riding on the National...?