Why blog?

Sharing stuff is fun.

For example, Ernie Ackermann’s blog (which I try to read regularly, and which I have linked this blog to-see the links column on the right) shares cool stuff. Yesterday’s blog hipped me to a site here at UMW that a colleague has put together to help his students prepare their research papers, and to a particular page explaining plagiarism. Who knew? (I didn’t, and I’m not sure when I’d have found out.) Ernie also shared an entire site devoted to issues of plagiarism, as well as the site (Neat New Stuff) that led him to the plagiarism site.

That sharing could have happened any number of other ways, but the connectivity of the Internet makes the particular act of sharing have greater immediate ramifications, and potentially greater depth. And it’s one more occasion to make that sharing happen.

Thanks, Ernie.