Dr. Andrew Chen from Minnesota State University University summarized the conference sessions on his blog, Lepus Inter Extraho. Here is the link to what he thought of the panel I presented on.
She rightly points out a number of issues inherent in that sort of context, and I hope that word of her sort of work can get out more so that we can move beyond such definitional and descriptive issues as has been plaguing much of the discussion about weblogs.
 The discussion after both Dr. Philip Baruth and I presented was very good. I thought the discussion about anonymous posts and blocking comments all together should be looked into more thoroughly. If we block comments on blogs are we hindering the conversation that blogs are so well known for?  I enjoy comments when I receive them. But, Dr. Baruth has a political satire blog where comments might hinder his blog posts. Dr. Baruth welcomes e-mails and will include sections in his posts as would any “letter to the editor” section. But, as I mentioned in my paper, we can not say, this is how ALL blogs should run. The author of the blog has a right to control the conversation. I do! All comments are emailed to me for my approval. The beauty of a blog is that it’s the author’s voice. If that voice is credible and informative, then the blog itself is a wonderful tool for our social-knowledge to grow.
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