I've been meaning to post this call for submissions on academic blogging. The "Digressions" section of the Fall 2004 issue of Lore: An E-journal for Teachers of Writing is going to center on "the role that blogging plays for compositionists and the composition classroom." From the call for papers:

Lore invites two types of writers to participate in this discussion. First, there are those who recognize a place for blogging in the profession. Do you keep a blog as part of your professional identity? Do you have your students keep blogs or read them for class assignments? What roles do you think blogs can play in a range of professional contexts? Second, there are those who keep blogs for personal reasons. What attracts you to the "blogosphere"? Do you keep an anonymous or pseudononymous blog and how did you come to that decision?

A casual observation: I gather that they'd like these responses to be written for an audience who doesn't know much, if anything, about blogging. Responses should be ~1000 words; deadline is 22 September 2004.