Exemplar URLs

Worth asked us to list those URLs we use to demonstrate the use of blogs in pedagogy and research. As I thought about this, a number of good ones came to mind. But I decided to only list those that fit the categories Worth supplied (pedagogy and research), and which I find significant enough to subscribe to as RSS feeds.

(1) Cory Doctorow's famous "Boing Boing." Although it's too big for me to read evertything, and something of a "geek news" blog like "Slashdot," the fact that Doctorow is a working writer who uses his blog as a source of ideas and items that interest him, I felt I should include it.

http://boingboing.net/

(2) Johndan Johnson Eilola's "Datacloud" Blog. A Professor in the independent technical writing program at Clarkson University, and a Purdue Alumni, Eilola is probably the "Blue Sky" thinker of my field.

http://people.clarkson.edu/~johndan/datacloud/

(3) Clay Spinuzzi's blogs from the Computer Writing and Research Lab at the University of Texas. Spinuzzi' blog "Network, Technology, and Distributed Work" is a perfect model of a blog used for research purposes.

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/?q=blog/3

He also maintains a separate pedagogy blog.

http://pedagogy.cwrl.utexas.edu/