FIRST PERSON

Blog Overload

An associate professor and devoted reader of blogs finds that requiring students to create one produced the wrong kind of buzz

By KARA M. DAWSON

I have a friend whose personal blog about her plight with breast cancer as a stay-at-home mother of two led to her job as an official blogger with the Cancer Blog. She majored in journalism. I have a colleague...

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