Hey, what's up with Kairos? Tried to check it out and it's now asking for a password to access "english.ttu.edu". Don't tell it's gone all pay per view!

One interesting bit in a generally pretty silly piece from the NYT on blogs and books:

Cass Sunstein read a discussion of one of his articles about conservative judicial radicalism on The Volokh Conspiracy, a group blog organized by Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in which Sunstein was invited to respond. "We had an interesting exchange and there were a lot of comments," said Sunstein, who teaches law at the University of Chicago. The discussion even spurred him to make changes to "Radicals in Robes," the book he was writing at the time. "There's no question that 'Radicals in Robes' was affected by a kind of pre-publication review on a blog," he said.

Currently enjoying Blog Talk Downunder in Sydney Australia. There have been some great papers and a great opportunity to meet other bloggers and blogging educators.

All the papers are up on the conference website and a number of people are blogging the conference.

I did a paper yesterday on blogging and higher education in which I referenced the Kairos "Falling out of Love with Blogging" discussion.

Check it out!

Hi I’m a journalism educator from Sydney Australia and I have recently started a blog to help me think about blogging and how it might be best introduced into our courses. Thinking about some of the problems I have seen raised in this and other forums (limited time for students to get used to blogs, lack of clarity about tasks, perceived (non)centrality etc which I have posted about here) I am becoming increasingly convinced that blogs used across classes over the duration of a degree course may provide a very interesting way forward.