Blogs

Blogs are online diaries or journals created by individuals or companies and stored on the Internet. They generally consist of text and images appearing in chronological order with the most recent entry shown at the top of the page.
They are a powerful communication and publishing tool, create engagement and are sources of niche information. They are primary sources of information can contain some of the most current opinion on the web and are becoming a valid source to get the latest ideas about a subject.
The task of selecting from the over 72 million blogs is quite tough that is why it will require some assistance from librarians. Tools like Technorati ( http://technorati.com/) and Blogpulse (http://blogpulse.com/) can be useful aids.

Blogs can help to develop writing skills, encourage community and reflection, and thereby assist deep learning. With the support of academic staff they could be used in our teaching, with student content being collected into the teacher’s aggregator
Students doing major pieces of research could be encouraged to keep blogs as a way of recording progress, managing their time and reflection.

Blogs are a powerful tool for information but, there are some pertinent points to take note of when blogging
1. Blogger
2. Blog materials
3. Blog Influence
4. Content Depth
5. Language
6. Blog Activity
7. Blog timing
8. Blog bias
9. Blog usefulness
(Joyce Valenz llinois Mathematics and Science Academy evaluating blogs http://21cif.imsa.edu, http://21cif.imsa.edu/rkitp/assessment/v1n5/valenza1.5_blogeval.html)

Blogging librarians
UK library blogs
http://uklibraryblogs.pbwiki.com
Blogorama in internet Resources Newsletter
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/im
In case you want to create a blog
www.blogger.com,
www.weebly.com,
www.blogsome.com
www.blogwebsites.net
http://www.squarespace.com/