I think I’m beginning to get it!  The set articles, Blogging to Learn and Educational Blogging were both enlightening.  The latter was more so, and revealed a source of my own confusion:  Until reading this, I had assumed that a blog was a log in the sense of dated entries (Captain’s log….) of what had been happening, placed on the web.  If it is that, then it might be useful, but so would a personal journal, and why make it public?  But the article revealed the other facet; a weblog as a log of web sites.  That seems a much more interesting thing to share: Useful links with anotated comments.  If you find a blog like that it could be really useful.

     My main reflection form this is that I didn’t know enough about blogs in the first place.  So, I think a good place to start is Stephen Downes’ idea of beginning by reading blogs, rather than starting with writing before really reflecting on the nature of the medium. In that sense, I would perhaps include a preliminary stage of “blog reading and analysis” before beginning Bartlett-Bragg’s 5-Stage Blogging Process.

     The other interesting point that Downes made was about the legal implications of blogs and the resulting restrictions. 

That, and the issue of veracity are what I find interesting about Web 2.0.