Learning reflection

I seem to be learning things about blogs. One of the important things is that people seem to have completely different ideas about what they are, in a rhetorical or social interaction sense. "Blog" to me means a journal I write, and which is displayed entry by entry, in reverse chronology, to a specified audience -- either all the world, or a defined group of readers. It allows other people to comment, but normally their comments are, although they're "public," not actually read by anyone other than the blogger, because the only way you can see them is to go back to the original posting and look at the comments there -- which normally no one does. In Moodle, though, and other CMS programs (and perhaps other places) a blog seems to be understood as pretty much the same thing as a wiki: a space everybody can write in. The main difference from a wiki being that a blog is organized chronologically -- what you write scrolls back down the time till it's effectively gone -- whereas a wiki creates a continually evolving permanent text.

This is mostly news to me, particularly the part about the extent to which comments on blogs are sometimes seen as, or are effectively, public -- and the extent to which a blog is understood to be one person's voice (the resident blog in Moodle is particularly not at all what I understood a blog to be).

So I have a new blog

This is where I'd keep a learning journal if I were capable of learning anything.