Research Blogs in Business Writing

I'm writing in this blog again as my students in business and administrative writing are creating blogs in which they will research business-related topics of their choice.

Research blogs have interested me for some time. While the blog genre began as a public form of the diary or journal (think of the many facebook or myspace blogs), the genre has been adapted by writers for other purposes:

Politics: http://www.dailykos.com/ http://www.drudgereport.com/

General News: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/ http://www.topix.net/news/blogs

Specialized News: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/ http://slashdot.org/

I think blogs are particularly useful as spaces in which to review and think about research. Some examples of this use of the genre:

http://locus.cwrl.utexas.edu/spinuzzi/?q=blog/2

http://people.clarkson.edu/~johndan/datacloud/

http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/

The following entry describes how one person has seen blogging change the way he researches information:

http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2005/06/21.html