Stephen Downes

Introductory article on educational blogging (you can tell the writers are still uneasy about it from the scare quotes around the well established term 'blogosphere'). I wish the authors of these articles would look a bit more deeply into the subject; while Weblogg-ED is a good introduction, I don't see how Blogsphere.us qualifies as one of the top two blogs you'd list on the subject of educational blogging. And a 1991 reference about community building does not indicate a genuine desire to credit people who have developed the field in the online environment.