Not a sarcastic title, but a genuine query. This snippet from BlogThings from explains it.

Well, You Know What a Blog Is… You got 4/8 correct!

But, truthfully, most blogs probably bore you. How Much Do You Know About Blogging?

After about a year of running this you’d think I’d know the answer. The reason I don’t is that my understanding of blogging is a bit like the way I think about Wikipedia. I think there’s a difference between the mechanics of setting up a blog and the process of running one. Besides, I know one way of setting up a blog but there are almost certainly more. If I were starting from scratch today there are things I’d do differently.

I ask as an iScience (interdisciplinary science) group blog looks more likely. The current idea is to set up a group blog that all staff have access to, and possibly the undergraduates too. I foresee two major problems. One is technical, who keeps an eye on the mechanics of running the blog? There’s a constant drive for updates to fight spammers and the department is committed to having comments enabled. There are other needs to update software as older versions become unsupported. The second aspect is More >