Stephen Downes

This short article illustrates the impact of weblogs in learning: "By shortening and simplifying content publication and processing, personal Web publishing practices, like weblog authoring, content aggregation and syndication, and the formation of conversational networks, address a number of important needs of today's learning environment." Be sure to enlarge the image, which shows in a way the words can't the way a network of blogs, rather than a single blog, creates an educational environment. Links to a number of good examples. Via incorporated subversion.