The evolution of blog in academia
This is an interesting article in the Village Voice about how professors in academia are starting blogs and how they are becoming more commonplace within educational environments.
This story has quotes and links from faculty bloggers in a number of disciplines including sociology, law and policy, and physics.
Blogs constitute a burgeoning field of study too; there are academic conferences on blogging, along with grad students writing papers and even dissertations on the subject-like Cameron Marlow, founder of blog-monitoring service blogdex.net, who is at the M.I.T. Media Lab, where he is finishing his doctorate on blogging, and danah boyd of UC Berkeley (zephoria.org), who is studying the hows and whys of online social networks.