I met a number of new-to-me edbloggers at C's, and our discussion at the SIG on Friday night was particularly exciting. We had all spent the week at sessions on blogging that turned out to be fairly basic, including the pre-conference workshop that I helped facilitate.* Based on that experience, Barclay split the SIG into beginner's and advanced groups, and things took off. We were hungry for a chance to talk about more advanced stuff, and some great ideas came out of our discussion.

All of us ended up exchanging email addresses, and Charlie's already got a listserv up and running for us to talk about future panel topics. If you're a compositionist or rhetorician who's interested in participating in future C's panels on blogging, email me for details on joining us.

It's the nature of rhetoricians to crawl all over a topic, to look at every different angle and then turn the subject inside out and see how it works. Blogs are finally starting to coming into their own as a subject of inquiry for my discipline, and I can't wait to see what people come up with.

*I didn't go to every session on blogging, but Clancy's presentation did go deeper, and many of us at the workshop had planned on in-depth discussions. However, as a group I think we misjudged our audience this time around. At our first workshop session, I launched into a discussion of classroom blogging models and was immediately interrupted by the question, "What is a blog?"