The Chronicle of Higher Education

Weblogs Come to the Classroom

They get used to supplement courses in writing, marketing, economics, and other subjects

By SCOTT CARLSON

Increasingly, private life is a public matter. That seems especially true in the phenomenon known as blogging. Weblogs, or blogs, are used by scores of online memoirists, editorialists, exhibitionists, and navel gazers, who post their daily thoughts on Web sites for...

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