I'd be curious to know what Bolter has to say about weblogs as writing spaces.

One of Bolter's primary questions for us regarded the relationship between the electronic writing exercises/projects that we do in class and the genres of writing that are practiced culturally. In this sense, weblogs have a "cultural materiality" due to the many practitioners outside the academy and their overal cultural importance. His concern was that we may be giving students assignments to write electornic documents that are just as "artificial" as the five-paragraph theme. Writing weblogs avoids this to some degree.

I posted the previous comment after our class was done for the day and I was being rushed from the lab. If it's not clear, Bolter felt that weblogs were important culturally and therefore were valuable in the class as an authentic genre of discourse active outside the academy. He would primarily be interested, I think, in how weblogs remediate conventions of previous media, such as those associated with journalism, diaries, or even memos and progress reports in the field of business.