** My Intellectual Flakes **

The problem of participation has been prevalent to online communication. It seems especially so for bloggers. According to Jakob Nielsen, the blogging activities follow a 90-9-1 rule:

90% of users are lurkers (i.e., read or observe, but don’t contribute).
9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time.
1% of users participate a [...]

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Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching.
The author felt that one major advantage of blogs over discussion forum is the affordance for permanence or continuity blogs afford. Unlike the online discussion enabled by Course Management System and confined to particular course, students can continue blogging beyond course. In this sense, the author became against [...]

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