Emmet Rosenfeld’s writings (not sure I want to call it a site, as he’s writing for “Education Week”) I would not call a blog from what I read. Instead I would consider them articles, like one would find in magazines or newspapers. By making this distinction I’m not accusing Rosenfeld of not being insightful or making me think with several of his posts like the previous writers have. In fact far from it, as I did like his post on digital ethics and did ask myself some of the questions he posed such as when does technology in school cease to be a privilege.
The posts themselves aren’t what makes me feel this isn’t an example of blogging, as he does have links to his source material throughout his various posts (even though my computer seems to refuse to let them work). What makes it more like a magazine article for me is instead what is all around the article not what’s in it. I should say what’s not all around his articles, which is outside links the author chose to place on his site. The previous bloggers had a place for links that they enjoyed on their sites, be it blogs that they followed (or at least recommended), or links to groups that the author was a member of such as Hambrick’s church. Its these links that I feel truly fleshes out a blog, since it supports Richardson’s claim that blogs are about creating a network of writers. Instead all I could find connected to Emmet’s site were links to other authors for “Education Week”. There is nothing wrong with this, but to me it makes it more of an article, and not a blog. Of course this means that I better start following some blogs, and various other news sources that I can make links for, or I’ll be a bit of a hypocrite.
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