A List of Thoughts, Mostly About Blogging...

1. How would we think about teaching writing if we could forget so much of what we do and were able to re-imgine what we'd wan t to do?

2. What is writing becoming?

3. Looking at all of these blogs and stuff, you wonder...who is reading?

4. Who are people writing for? For what purposes?

5. What is the transaction that occurs within the writer as she blogs?

6. Assume that so much of blogging is about self-formation.... In a semi-public form and forum... What does this tell us? Why are so many people blogging? What is the real purpose, the deeper purpose, or intention?

7. What does blogging provide that other forms of access do not?

8. Is this something that is missing in our lives? Is blogging a new expression/formation? Is the blogosphere a place that we need to take note of, and incorporate into how we think about language, writing, reading, learning? How so?

9. How is it that blogs and bloggers are relatively invisible until we discover them, stumble upon them?

10. What is the range of voices, uses, expressions, purposes, intentions, in blogging?

11. How is blogging evolving as a form?

12. What is the result of blogging? That is, what does blogging do for us, allow us to do, that other forms of discourse do not do?

13. How do we maintain the edginess, the revolution, the radical making, that is available in blogs? That is, how do we avoid co-opting them, diluting them, commodifying them?

14. How can we exploit them, so that we use them fully?

15. How do we learn about how to exploit them, their possibilities? What sources can we rely on? Esp. for teaching--since our students know so much more about their construction and features?

We need a Sven Birkerts of blogging...