…What weblogs can do Provide a simple mechanism to publish well-formatted, accessible content to the web. Serve as a personal management tool, collecting useful resources and links in an easily accessible and searchable online location. Function as something like a public brain, floating ideas, speculating on future developments, giving shout-outs to work that you like and shooting off ill-tempered criticisms to things that you don’t. Create an ongoing personal portfolio, where you can present papers, presentations and and pertinent news. Be an interface to participating in communities of practice and interest. Like-minded webloggers tend to find one another. Weblogs can support distributed conversations amongst diverse and disparate overlapping online groups. What they can’t do “Reverse chronology” of postings does not support linear exposition. Make you a better writer, though the practice of writing for a public readership will. …

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