Can we become a blogging community?

After reading the essays on the website that was given I found that it was really hard to actually pick one that I can call my favorite. They all seemed pretty uninteresting to me. So I thought I’d do some rereading to see if I found one that caught my attention. After rereading everything I did manage to pick a favorite. The blog that I liked the most was the one titled “I Don’t Really Want to Go into Personal Things in This Blog”: Risking Connection through Blogging, by Carlton Clark. The reason that I find this blog interesting is because instead of just talking about how he uses blogging in his class he gives examples and added a personal tough to it. I like how he included part of the actual blog that he posted for his student and the response that he got from a real student. I find that this makes the blog much more fun to read because it’s more than just the professional blogging that he is doing now. I also enjoyed the blog that was titled “Knit Blogging: Considering an Online Community” by Amy E. Earhart. I enjoyed this blog because it took a different approach on how to get the readers attention. I think that talking about yarn and knitting and how it led to blogging was smart. I also liked how she managed to tie in academic blogging with the knitting, how she wrote about her wishing that the English writing community could be a little less isolated, and how she thought that a blog could help the situation.